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Man's Better Angels : Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War /
Banks failed, inequality grew, people were out of work, and slavery threatened to rend the nation in two. The Panic of 1837 drew forth reformers who, animated by self-reliance, became prophets of a new moral order that would make America great again. Philip Gura captures a Romantic moment that was s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. George Ripley, Transcendentalist Dreamer
- 2. Horace Greeley and the French Connection
- 3. William B. Greene and the Allure of Mutualism
- 4. Orson Squire Fowler: Reading the National Character, for a Price
- 5. Mary Gove Nichols: Individual Health and Sovereignty
- 6. Thoreau's Nullification
- 7. John Brown and the Bankruptcy of Conscience
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index