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The mind of the master class : history and faith in the Southern slaveholders' worldview / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eugene D. Genovese.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1941-2007.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slaveholders--Southern States--Social life and customs.
- Slaveholders.
- Slaveholders--Religious life--Southern States.
- Slaveholders--Southern States--Intellectual life.
- Slavery--Southern States--Justification.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Moral and ethical aspects--Southern States--History.
- Slavery--Political aspects--Southern States--History.
- History.
- Philosophy.
- Slavery--Political aspects.
- Slavery--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Justification (Christian theology).
- Intellectual life.
- Slaveholders--Religious life.
- Manners and customs.
- Southern States--Social life and customs--1775-1865.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Religious life and customs.
- Southern States--Intellectual life.
- Southern States--History--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 828 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Cradled in the Storms of Revolution
- 1 "That Terrible Tragedy" 11
- 2 The Age of Revolution through Slaveholding Eyes 41
- 3 "The Purest Sons of Freedom" 69
- Entr'acte: The Bonds of Slavery 88
- Part 2 The Inescapable Past
- 4 History as Moral and Political Instruction 125
- 5 The Slaveholders' Quest for a History of the Common People 170
- 6 World History and the Politics of Slavery 201
- 7 History as the Story of Freedom 225
- Part 3 Ancient Legacies, Medieval Sensibility, Modern Men
- 8 In the Shadow of Antiquity 249
- 9 Coming to Terms with the Middle Ages 305
- 10 The Chivalry 329
- 11 Chivalric Slave Masters 365
- 12 Chivalric Politics: Southern Ladies Take Their Stand 383
- Part 4 A Christian People Defend the Faith
- 13 A Christian People 409
- 14 Unity and Diversity among the Faithful 444
- 15 War over the Good Book 473
- 16 Slavery: Proceeding from the Lord 505
- 17 The Holy Spirit in the Word of God 528
- 18 Jerusalem and Athens - Against Paris 566
- 19 Serpent in the Garden: Liberal Theology in the South 587
- 20 Theopolitics: Golden Rule, Higher Law, and Slavery 613
- Coda: St. John of Pottawatamie 636
- Part 5 At the Rubicon
- 21 Between Individualism and Corporatism: From the Reformation to the War for Southern Independence 649
- 22 Past and Future Caesars 680
- Epilogue: King Solomon's Dilemma 711.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 719-792) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521850657
- 0521615623
- OCLC:
- 60188223
- Publisher Number:
- 9780521850650
- 9780521615624
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