Daniel Walker Howe: Making the American Self

Cover: 9780195387896 | Making the American Self | Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln | Howe

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Beschreibung

Many early Americans sought the opportunity to "make something of themselves"-not only to choose an occupation but to fulfill their potential, to engage in "self-improvement." This book reconstructs their project from the time of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin to that of Abraham Lincoln, Margaret Fuller, and Frederick Douglass.

Über den Autor

Daniel Walker Howe is Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus, Oxford University and Professor of History Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of What Hath God Wrought (OUP 2007), which won the Pulitzer Prize in History, The Unitarian Conscience, and The Political Culture of the American Whigs. He lives in Los Angeles.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

I Virtue and Passion in the American Enlightenment

1: Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Problem of Human Nature

2: The American Founders and the Scottish Enlightenment

3: The Political Psychology of The Federalist

II Constructing Character in Antebellum America

4: The Emerging Ideal of Self-Improvement

5: Self-Made Men: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

6: Shaping the Selves of Others

III The Cultivation of the Self Among the New England Romantics

7: The Platonic Quest in New England

8: Margaret Fuller's Heroic Ideal of Womanhood

9: The Constructed Self Against the State

Conclusion

Notes

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780195387896
ISBN-10:	0195387899
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Howe, Daniel Walker
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Daniel Walker Howe
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.09.2009
Gewicht:	0,603 kg