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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Stran ix
... interest in ideas and a powerful urge to find meaning in their experience are able to tell us more about a crisis of values , with its inevitable confu- sion and ambivalence , than the many who avoid difficult issues and are content to ...
... interest in ideas and a powerful urge to find meaning in their experience are able to tell us more about a crisis of values , with its inevitable confu- sion and ambivalence , than the many who avoid difficult issues and are content to ...
Stran xi
... interests and accomplishments , who are in fact at the core of this study . They were not simply a " community of discourse " but also a community in a more literal social sense- almost , one is tempted to say , a social circle or set ...
... interests and accomplishments , who are in fact at the core of this study . They were not simply a " community of discourse " but also a community in a more literal social sense- almost , one is tempted to say , a social circle or set ...
Stran xii
... interests , but as this study shows , it was clearly conditioned by them . This group is historically important for several reasons . First , and most obviously , it produced a lion's share of the most widely read and admired authors of ...
... interests , but as this study shows , it was clearly conditioned by them . This group is historically important for several reasons . First , and most obviously , it produced a lion's share of the most widely read and admired authors of ...
Stran xv
... interest in the clash of armies , the efforts of statesmen , or the triumph of one economic and social system over ... interests . This book is , first of all , an attempt to describe the " inner " Civil War of the Northern intellectual ...
... interest in the clash of armies , the efforts of statesmen , or the triumph of one economic and social system over ... interests . This book is , first of all , an attempt to describe the " inner " Civil War of the Northern intellectual ...
Stran xvi
... interest in ideas and a powerful urge to find meaning and coherence in their experience are able to tell us more about a crisis of values , with its inevitable confusion and ambivalence , than the many who avoid difficult issues and are ...
... interest in ideas and a powerful urge to find meaning and coherence in their experience are able to tell us more about a crisis of values , with its inevitable confusion and ambivalence , than the many who avoid difficult issues and are ...
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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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The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union George M. Fredrickson Predogled ni na voljo - 1965 |
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