ISBN:
9780511614804
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (xiii, 828 pages)
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.3/62/0975
Schlagwort(e):
Geistesgeschichte 1775-1865
;
Alltag, Brauchtum
;
Ethik
;
Geschichte
;
Philosophie
;
Politik
;
Sklaverei
;
Slaveholders / Southern States / Social life and customs
;
Slaveholders / Religious life / Southern States
;
Slaveholders / Southern States / Intellectual life
;
Slavery / Southern States / Justification
;
Slavery / Moral and ethical aspects / Southern States / History
;
Slavery / Political aspects / Southern States / History
;
Sklavenhalter
;
Southern States / Social life and customs / 1775-1865
;
Southern States / Religious life and customs
;
Southern States / Intellectual life
;
Southern States / History / Philosophy
;
USA Südstaaten
;
USA Südstaaten
;
Sklavenhalter
;
Geistesgeschichte 1775-1865
Kurzfassung:
The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ('free-labor') society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to learn from their probing moral and political reflections on their times - and ours - beginning with the virtues and failings of their own society and culture
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511614804
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511614804
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511614804
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
