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...

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1. Verfasser: Gura, Philip F. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2017]
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Zusammenfassung: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 soon overtaken by civil war and postwar pragmatism
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (328 pages)
ISBN:9780674978133
DOI:10.4159/9780674978133

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