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John Brown : A Reference Guide to His Life and Works.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jr., Louis DeCaro.
- Series:
- Significant Figures in World History Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.
- Summary:
- Focusing on John Brown, this book contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section contains cross-referenced entries.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- A Concise Chronology of John Brown's Life
- Introduction
- Young Adulthood and Business Difficulties
- A Business Comeback
- Transition: From Business to Black Liberation
- The Kansas Crisis
- The Pottawatomie Incident
- Between Kansas and Virginia
- The Harper's Ferry Raid
- Prisoner and Martyr
- Biography and White Society's Racial Outlook
- Biography and White Society's Religious Outlook
- Biography and Post-Reconstruction
- Biography, Theological Revision, and the Rise of Secularism
- Biography and the Black Nadir
- Biography: Revision and Hostility
- Biography and the Twentieth Century
- Biography and African American Memory
- Biography and the Left
- The Oates Biography
- The Twenty-First Century: Biography and Culture
- Beyond "Drive-by" Biography
- Those Who Have Gone Before Us
- Part I: Entries A-Z
- John Brown's Letters
- Notes
- Appendixes
- Appendix I: John Brown's Family
- Appendix II: Three Public Documents by John Brown
- Appendix III: The Tragedy of the Doyle Family
- Appendix IV: Hugh Forbes: John Brown's Gadfly
- Appendix V: Preambles of Liberation
- Appendix VI: Toward Understanding the Harper's Ferry Raid on Its Own Terms
- Appendix VII: Richard Parker, John Brown's Judge
- Appendix VIII: John Brown Letter Collections
- Bibliography
- Books (1859-Present)
- Noteworthy Hybrid Works of History and Fiction
- Contemporary Magazine and Journal Articles (1920s-Present)
- Historical Magazine and Journal Articles (1800s-1919)
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9798881807061
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