Edition |
[Abridged ed.]. |
Description |
1 online resource (x, 385 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Southern States -- Intellectual life.
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Southern States. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Intellectuals -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Intellectuals. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
Subject |
Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Social conditions. |
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Southern States -- Relations -- Europe.
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Relations. |
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Europe. |
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Europe -- Relations -- Southern States.
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Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Added Author |
O'Brien, Michael, 1948-2015.
Conjectures of order.
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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) |
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0807895644 (electronic book) |
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9781469604015 (electronic book) |
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1469604019 (electronic book) |
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9780807834008 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807834009 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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