Intellectual life and the American South, 1810-1860 : an abridged edition of Conjectures of order /

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 Thorn...

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Main Author: O'Brien, Michael, 1948-2015
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010
Edition:[Abridged ed.].
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.