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Man's better angels : romantic reformers and the coming of the Civil War
- Title
- Man's better angels : romantic reformers and the coming of the Civil War / Philip F. Gura.
- Author
- Gura, Philip F., 1950-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
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Details
- Description
- 315 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Man's Better Angels explores the ideas that influenced antebellum reform efforts in the United States, especially after the social, political, and economic shocks the country suffered after the Panic of 1837... Gura uses seven individuals--George Ripley, Horace Greeley, William B. Greene, Orson Squire Fowler, Mary Gove Nichols, Henry David Thoreau, and John Brown--to explore the finally futile efforts of antebellum reformers to apply their solutions to America's problems, which ranged from growing inequality to the most intractable problem of all, slavery"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- George Ripley, Transcendentalist Dreamer -- Horace Greeley and the French Connection -- William B. Greene and the Allure of Mutualism -- Orson Squire Fowler: Reading the National Character, for a Price -- Mary Gove Nichols: Individual Health and Sovereignty -- Thoreau's Nullification -- John Brown and the Bankruptcy of Conscience.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-2704
- ISBN
- 9780674659544
- 0674659546
- LCCN
- 2016037370
- 40026974862
- OCLC
- 956775524
- Author
- Gura, Philip F., 1950- author.
- Title
- Man's better angels : romantic reformers and the coming of the Civil War / Philip F. Gura.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1815-1861
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40026974862
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-2704