The global Lincoln /

Perhaps more than any other American, Abraham Lincoln has become a global figure, one who spoke--and continues to speak--to people across the world. Karl Marx judged Lincoln "the single-minded son of the working class"; Tolstoy reported his fame in the Caucasus; Tomas Masaryk, the first pr...

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Other Authors: Carwardine, Richard, Sexton, Jay, 1978-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • The global Lincoln / Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton
  • Lincoln's horizons : the nationalist as universalist / Richard Carwardine
  • An American hero in prints abroad : the European image of Lincoln / Harold Holzer
  • "The principle of humanity" : Lincoln in Germany and Italy, 1859-1865 / Eugenio F. Biagini
  • Liberté, égalité, and Lincoln : French readings of an American president / Michael Vorenberg
  • "A total misconception" : Lincoln, the Civil War, and the British, 1860-1865 / Lawrence Goldman
  • "The stuff our dreams are made of" : Lincoln in the English imagination / Adam I.P. Smith
  • Kentucky's "cottage-bred man" : Abraham Lincoln and Wales / Kenneth O. Morgan
  • "Freedom and unity" : Lincoln in Irish political discourse / Kevin Kenny
  • Defining a legacy : Lincoln in the national imaginary of India / Vinay Lal
  • A man for all seasons : Lincoln in Spain / Carolyn P. Boyd
  • "That great and gentle soul" : images of Lincoln in Latin America / Nicola Miller
  • "A standard of our thought and action" : Lincoln's reception in East Asia / De-Min Tao
  • National unity and liberty : Lincoln's image and reception in Germany, 1871-1989 / Jörg Nagler
  • From colonization to anti-colonialism : Lincoln in Africa / Kevin Gaines
  • Hating and loving the "real" Abe Lincolns : Lincoln and the American South / David W. Blight
  • Projecting Lincoln, projecting America / Jay Sexton.