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