Lincoln's America [[electronic resource] ] : 1809-1865 / / edited by Joseph R. Fornieri and Sara Vaughn Gabbard

• Pubblicazione: Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.7092
• Soggetto topico: Presidents - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 1815-1861; United States Politics and government 1861-1865; United States Social conditions To 1865; United States Intellectual life 19th century
• Altri autori: FornieriJoseph R GabbardSara Vaughn
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Interpreting Lincoln the man and his times / Joseph R. Fornieri -- A. Lincoln, philosopher : Lincoln's place in nineteenth-century intellectual history / Allen C. Guelzo -- Tocqueville and Lincoln on religion and democracy in America / Joseph R. Fornieri -- Schooling in Lincoln's America and Lincoln's extraordinary self-schooling / Myron Marty -- American religion, 1809-1865 / Mark Noll -- The middle-class marriage of Abraham and Mary Lincoln / Kenneth J. Winkle -- Abraham Lincoln : the making of the attorney-in-chief / Frank J. Williams -- "No such right" : the origins of Lincoln's rejection of the right of property in slaves / James Oakes -- Abraham Lincoln and the antislavery movement / Richard Striner -- "As good as it can be made" : Abraham Lincoln's heroic image in nineteenth-century art / Harold Holzer -- Lincoln and the nature of "a more perfect union" / Herman Belz -- Appendix: Chronology of Lincoln's America.
• Titolo autorizzato: Lincoln's America
• ISBN: 1-280-69808-X; 9786613675040; 0-8093-8713-1; 1-4416-1953-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778133203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II