The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the UnionUniversity of Illinois Press, 1965 - 277 strani 'The Inner Civil War', first published more than twenty-five years ago, is a classic that has influenced historians' views of the Civil War and American intellectual change in the nineteenth century. This edition includes a new preface in which the author demonstrates the continuing relevance of the work and updates its interpretations. |
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... England Mind : From Colony to Province ( 1953 ) , I also learned that sophisticated thought does not exist in a vacuum but constitutes a response to historical change . Just as Miller's cove- nant theology could not withstand the shock ...
... England Mind : From Colony to Province ( 1953 ) , I also learned that sophisticated thought does not exist in a vacuum but constitutes a response to historical change . Just as Miller's cove- nant theology could not withstand the shock ...
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Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union George M. Fredrickson. England's transformation from cutting edge of the reformation to provincial trading society , the radical individualism that I found to be the dominant ante ...
Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union George M. Fredrickson. England's transformation from cutting edge of the reformation to provincial trading society , the radical individualism that I found to be the dominant ante ...
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... England focus and flavor is evident ; sev- eral of my New Yorkers had New England origins or connections . I do not believe that this admission detracts greatly from the importance of the work . In line with Elkins's assertion about the ...
... England focus and flavor is evident ; sev- eral of my New Yorkers had New England origins or connections . I do not believe that this admission detracts greatly from the importance of the work . In line with Elkins's assertion about the ...
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... England . The discourse of intellectuals who were born into or assimilated by this distinctive social group should not be reduced to an expression of particular class or status interests , but as this study shows , it was clearly ...
... England . The discourse of intellectuals who were born into or assimilated by this distinctive social group should not be reduced to an expression of particular class or status interests , but as this study shows , it was clearly ...
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... England - based , educated elite and helped prepare it for a new modernizing role . The book , therefore , is not really so much about a few deep thinkers or unusually sensitive souls who under- stood what everyone else missed about the ...
... England - based , educated elite and helped prepare it for a new modernizing role . The book , therefore , is not really so much about a few deep thinkers or unusually sensitive souls who under- stood what everyone else missed about the ...
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Prophets of Perfection | 7 |
Conservatives in a Radical Age | 23 |
The Impending Crisis | 36 |
The War as Idea and Experience 18601865 | 51 |
Secession Rebellion and Ideology | 53 |
The Spirit of 61 | 65 |
This Cruel War The Individual Response to Suffering | 79 |
The Sanitary Elite The Organized Response to Suffering | 98 |
The Martyr and His Friends | 151 |
The Strenuous Life | 166 |
The Legacy | 181 |
The Twilight of Humanitarianism | 183 |
Science and the New Intellectuals | 199 |
The Moral Equivalent of War | 217 |
Notes | 239 |
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