Format:
1 online resource (258 pages)
ISBN:
9780809387137
Content:
To fully understand and appreciate Abraham Lincoln's legacy, it is important to examine the society that influenced the life, character, and leadership of the man who would become the Great Emancipator. Editors Joseph R. Fornieri and Sara Vaughn Gabbard have done just that in Lincoln's America: 1809-1865, a collection of new and original essays by ten eminent historians that place Lincoln within his nineteenth-century cultural context. Among the topics explored in Lincoln's America are religion, education, middle-class family life, the antislavery movement, politics, and law. Of particular interest are the transition of American intellectual and philosophical thought from the Enlightenment to Romanticism and the influence of this evolution on Lincoln's own ideas. By examining aspects of Lincoln's life- his personal piety in comparison with the beliefs of his contemporaries, his success in self-schooling when frontier youths had limited opportunities for a formal education, his marriage and home life in Springfield, and his legal career- in light of broader cultural contexts such as the development of democracy, the growth of visual arts, the question of slaves as property, and French visitor Alexis de Tocqueville's observations on America, the contributors delve into the mythical Lincoln of folklore and discover a developing political mind and a changing nation. As Lincoln's America shows, the sociopolitical culture of nineteenth-century America was instrumental in shaping Lincoln's character and leadership. The essays in this volume paint a vivid picture of a young nation and its sixteenth president, arguably its greatest leader.
Content:
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Interpreting Lincoln the Man and His Times -- 1. A. Lincoln, Philosopher: Lincoln's Place in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History -- 2. Tocqueville and Lincoln on Religion and Democracy in America -- 3. Schooling in Lincoln's America and Lincoln's Extraordinary Self-Schooling -- 4. American Religion, 1809-1865 -- 5. The Middle-Class Marriage of Abraham and Mary Lincoln -- 6. Abraham Lincoln: The Making of the Attorney-in-Chief -- 7. "No Such Right" : The Origins of Lincoln's Rejection of the Right of Property in Slaves -- 8. Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Movement -- 9. "As Good as It Can Be Made" : Lincoln's Heroic Image in Nineteenth-Century Art -- 10. Lincoln and the Nature of "A More Perfect Union" -- Appendix -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780809328789
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780809328789
Language:
English
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1354512
