Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, Bind 1

Forsideomslag
Univ of North Carolina Press, 1. mar. 2004 - 1456 sider
In this magisterial history of intellectual life, Michael O'Brien analyzes the lives and works of antebellum Southern thinkers and reintegrates the South into the larger tradition of American and European intellectual history.

O'Brien finds that the ev

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Retrospective Glances
591
Of Ancient and More Modern Times
606
To Discover Procure Preserve and Diffuse
623
The Ancestral Mould
636
The Unities of Biography
653
As to My Self What Shall I Say?
671
To Write a People
683
The Rationale of Verse
706
As If Money Was the Most Important Matter in This World
877
We Can Take Care of Ourselves
907
Our Slavery Question
938
A Moral Pathology
959
Philosophy and Faith
993
The Dim Land of Vagaries
995
We Regard Man as Inherently a Being of Motion
1014
Cloudy Transcendentalism
1039

Novels and the Like
742
Pride and Tower
779
Our Present Peculiar Complicated and Remarkable System of Governments
781
The HornBook of Politics
799
South Carolina Doctrines
817
The Great Principles of Democracy
836
Power and Liberty
849
Clustering Groups
862
Theology for the South
1067
The Adoption of Sons
1114
The Imprisoned Bird
1159
Cool Brains
1161
Bibliography
1203
Acknowledgments
1293
Index
1297
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Om forfatteren (2004)

Michael O'Brien (1948-2015) was professor of American intellectual history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of the British Academy. He is author or editor of several books on Southern intellectual history, including Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon.

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