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Author O'Brien, Michael, 1948-2015.

Title Intellectual life and the American South, 1810-1860 : an abridged edition of Conjectures of order / Michael O'Brien ; foreword by Daniel Walker Howe.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
©2010

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Edition [Abridged ed.].
Description 1 online resource (x, 385 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : the position and course of the South -- The softened echo of the world -- All the tribes, all the productions of nature -- A volley of words -- The shape of a history -- Pride and power -- Philosophy and faith -- Epilogue : cool brains.
Summary Michael O'Brien has masterfully abridged his award-winning two-volume intellectual history of the Old South, Conjectures of Order . Here he succinctly and fluidly surveys the lives and works of many significant Southern intellectuals, including John C. Calhoun, Louisa McCord, James Henley Thornwell, and George Fitzhugh. He offers a new understanding of the South by describing a place neither monolithic nor out of touch, but conflicted, mobile, and ambitious to integrate modern intellectual developments into its tense and idiosyncratic social experience.
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Subject Southern States -- Intellectual life.
Southern States.
Intellectual life.
Intellectuals -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Intellectuals.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Social conditions.
Southern States -- Relations -- Europe.
Relations.
Europe.
Europe -- Relations -- Southern States.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author O'Brien, Michael, 1948-2015. Conjectures of order.
Other Form: Print version: O'Brien, Michael, 1948 April 13- Intellectual life and the American South, 1810-1860. [Abridged ed.]. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010 9780807834008 (DLC) 2009046322 (OCoLC)441211473
ISBN 9780807895641 (electronic book)
0807895644 (electronic book)
9781469604015 (electronic book)
1469604019 (electronic book)
9780807834008 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807834009 (cloth ; alkaline paper)