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Antebellum American culture : an interpretive anthology /
First published in 1979, this volume offers students and teachers a unique view of American history prior to the Civil War. Distinguished historian David Brion Davis has chosen a diverse array of primary sources that show the actual concerns, hopes, fears, and understandings of ordinary antebellum A...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction: Organization and Themes
- UNIT ONE Socialization and the Problem of Influence
- Introduction
- 1. The Art and Responsibilities of Family Government
- 2. The Discipline and Self-Discipline of the Young
- 3. The Changing Uses of Law
- 4. " Improvements" : Transportation and Corporations
- 5. The Politics of Opportunity
- 6. The Fear of Sectional Exclusion
- UNIT THREE The Plight of Outsiders in an "Open Society"
- Introduction
- 1. The Plight of Outsiders in an "Open Society" 209 1T he Protestant Establishment
- 2. The Problem of Aborigines: Assimilation Versus Rem
- 3. The Discovery of Cultural Polarities
- 4. The Nonfreedom of "Free Blacks"
- 5. The Polarized South: Outsiders Insid
- UNIT FOUR Ideals of Progress, Perfection, and Mission
- Introduction
- 1 Science, Machines, and Human Progress
- 2 Revivals, Holiness, and the American Conversion of the World
- 3 The Temperance Reformation
- 4 Abolitionism and Moral Progress
- 5 The Quest for New Social Harmonies
- 6 Transcending Human History: Americans as "Pioneers of the World"
- Chronology, 1820-1860