Abolitionist Imagination

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Delbanco is the Mendelson Family Chair of American Studies and Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Daniel Carpenter is Allie S. Freed Professor of Government at Harvard University and author of the prizewinning books Reputation and Power and The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy . At Harvard, he has led the creation of the Digital Archive of Antislavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions and the Digital Archive of Native American Petitions. John Stauffer is Professor of English, of American Studies, and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. He is the author of Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln . Manisha Sinha is Associate Professor of History and Afro-American Studies at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Klappentext Abolitionists have been painted in extremes--vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the bloodletting of the Civil War! or praised as daring reformers who hastened the end of slavery. Delbanco sees them as the embodiment of a driving force in American history: the recurrent impulse of an adamant minority to rid the world of outrageous evil. Zusammenfassung Abolitionists have been painted in extremes—vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring reformers who hastened the end of slavery. Delbanco sees them as the embodiment of a driving force in American history: the recurrent impulse of an adamant minority to rid the world of outrageous evil.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Delbanco
• Assisted by: Carpenter Daniel (Foreword)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2012
• EAN: 9780674064447
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06444-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures; The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics; Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures; The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), Slavery and abolition of slavery, c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, American Civil War, HISTORY / Military / Early Modern Warfare (1500-1800)