Man’s Better Angels : : Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War / / Philip F. Gura.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Gura, Philip F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. George Ripley, Transcendentalist Dreamer --; 2. Horace Greeley and the French Connection --; 3. William B. Greene and the Allure of Mutualism --; 4. Orson Squire Fowler: Reading the National Character, for a Price --; 5. Mary Gove Nichols: Individual Health and Sovereignty --; 6. Thoreau’s Nullification --; 7. John Brown and the Bankruptcy of Conscience --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674978133; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674978133
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Philip F. Gura.

Banks failed, inequality grew, people were out of work, and slavery threatened to rend the nation in two. The Panic of 1837 drew forth reformers who, animated by self-reliance, became prophets of a new moral order that would make America great again. Philip Gura captures a Romantic moment that was soon overtaken by civil war and postwar pragmatism.