Man's Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War

Man s Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War Gura Philip F. Wydawca: Harvard University Press Data wydania: 2017 ISBN: 9780674659544 Liczba stron: 328 Format: 150 x 218 x 27 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: 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.