1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911088683303321

Autore

DeCaro Louis A. <1957->

Titolo

"Fire from the midst of you" : a religious life of John Brown / / Louis A. DeCaro, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8147-4406-0

1-4294-1386-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Disciplina

973.7/116/092

B

Soggetti

Abolitionists - United States

Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century

Christianity and politics - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-344) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. -- 1. “And They Had No Comforter” -- 2. John Brown’s Heritage -- 3. Revival, Resistance, and Abolition in the Time of John Brown -- 4. The Early Years -- 5. Millennial Hopes, Abolitionist Awakenings -- 6. “This Path of Life” -- 7. Citizen Brown’s Calvinist Community -- 8. Citizen Brown’s Calvinist Community -- 9. Of Vows and Tears -- 10. Belted Knights and Practical Shepherds -- 11. “We Are Tossing Up and Down” -- 12. The Practical Shepherd in Springfield -- 13. A Cold and Snowy Canaan Land -- 14. “So We Go” -- 15. “All the Encouragement in My Power” -- 16. Ohio and Beyond -- 17. “Kansas the Outpost” -- 18. Pottawatomie and the Fatherless -- 19. “The Language of Providence” -- 20. “This Spark of Fire” -- 21. “My Public Murder” -- Epilogue. A Saint’s Rest -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

John Brown is usually remembered as a terrorist whose unbridled hatred of slavery drove him to the ill-fated raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1859. Tried and executed for seizing the arsenal and attempting to spur a liberation movement among the slaves, Brown was the ultimate cause celebre for a country on the brink of civil war.“Fire



from the Midst of You” situates Brown within the religious and social context of a nation steeped in racism, showing his roots in Puritan abolitionism. DeCaro explores Brown's unusual family heritage as well as his business and personal losses, retracing his path to the Southern gallows. In contrast to the popular image of Brown as a violent fanatic, DeCaro contextualizes Brown's actions, emphasizing the intensely religious nature of the antebellum U.S. in which he lived. He articulates the nature of Brown's radical faith and shows that, when viewed in the context of his times, he was not the religious fanatic that many have understood him to be. DeCaro calls Brown a “Protestant saint”—an imperfect believer seeking to realize his own perceived calling in divine providence.In line with the post-millennial theology of his day, Brown understood God as working through mankind and the church to renew and revive sinful humanity. He read the Bible not only as God's word, but as God's word to John Brown. DeCaro traces Brown's life and development to show how by forging faith as a radical weapon, Brown forced the entire nation to a point of crisis. “Fire from the Midst of You” defies the standard narrative with a new reading of John Brown. Here is the man that the preeminent Black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois called a "mighty warning" and the one Malcolm X called “a real white liberal.”



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911126537903321

Autore

Groenewegen Peter D

Titolo

Classics and moderns in economics [[electronic resource] ] . Volume 2 : essays on nineteenth and twentieth century economic thought / / Peter Groenewegen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

9781134417377

1134417373

9781134417384

1134417381

9780203460696

0203460693

9781280403460

1280403462

9780203458648

0203458648

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; ; 58

Disciplina

330.1/09/034

Soggetti

Economics - History - 19th century

Economics - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; (continued) Nineteenth-century moderns; Adam Smith and Alfred Marshall: some reflections; Marshall on Ricardo; Alfred Marshall and the history of economic thought; Alfred Marshall and Herbert Somerton Foxwell: a tale of two libraries; Marshall's correspondence 1868  1924: a review; Maffeo Pantaleoni; A neglected daughter of Adam Smith: Clara Elizabeth Collet (1860  1948); Twentieth-century moderns; John Maynard Keynes (1883  1946): a centenary lecture; Keynes and Marshall: methodology, science and politics

Marshall biography after KeynesJoseph Alois Schumpeter (1883  1950): a centenary tribute; Joan Robinson: 1903  83; Unemployment and price



stability: aspects of the Marshallian legacy on the monetary economy; Jacob Viner and the history of economic thought; The making of good economists: reviewing some consequences of Colin Clark's life and practice; Exemplary economists of the twentieth century: a review article of thirty-six economists' autobiographies; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This second volume of essays on nineteenth and twentieth century economic thought, complements the first and continues the high standards of scholarship and academic rigour.