Man's better angels : romantic reformers and the coming of the Civil War /
Man's Better Angels explores the ideas that influenced antebellum reform efforts in the United States, especially after the social, political and economic shocks the country suffered after the Panic of 1837. The Panic also galvanized reformers, encouraging some to act and others to act even mor...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- George Ripley, Transcendentalist dreamer
- Horace Greeley and the French connection
- William B. Greene and the allure of mutualism
- O. S. Fowler: reading the national character, for a price
- Mary Gove Nichols: individual health and sovereignty
- Thoreau's nullification
- John Brown and the bankruptcy of conscience.