The Inner Civil War

Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union

By: George M. Fredrickson

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Paperback | 16 March 1993

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'The Inner Civil War', first published more than twenty-five years ago, is a classic that has influenced historians' views of the Civil War and American intellectual change in the nineteenth century. This edition includes a new preface in which the author demonstrates the continuing relevance of the work and updates its interpretations.

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Non-Fiction History Military History American Civil War Regional & National History History of the Americas Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900 Warfare & Defence

Preface to the 1993 Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Prologue
Roles and Rehearsals: The 1850s
Prophets of Perfection	p. 7
Conservatives in a Radical Age	p. 23
The Impending Crisis	p. 36
The War as Idea and Experience, 1860-65
Secession, Rebellion, and Ideology	p. 53
The Spirit of '61	p. 65
"This Cruel War": The Individual Response to Suffering	p. 79
The Sanitary Elite: The Organized Response to Suffering	p. 98
The Meaning of Emancipation	p. 113
The Doctrine of Loyalty	p. 130
The Martyr and His Friends	p. 151
The Strenuous Life	p. 166
The Legacy
The Twilight of Humanitarianism	p. 183
Science and the New Intellectuals	p. 199
The Moral Equivalent of War	p. 217
Notes	p. 239
Index	p. 269
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