Challenges to the American Founding
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Challenges to the American Founding: Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nineteenth Century

Challenges to the American Founding: Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nineteenth Century

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Ronald J. Pestritto's and Thomas G. West's earlier volume The American Founding and the Social Compact addressed the nature of the thought and philosophy of the men who shaped the American founding. In this second volume in a trilogy, Pestritto and West examine the fate of the founders' principles in the nine teeth century, when these principles faced their first great challenges. Support of slavery, culminating in secession and civil war, came from the South; and after the war came positivism, relativism, and radical egalitarianism, which originated in Europe and infiltrated American universities, where intellectuals repudiated the founders' views as historically obsolete and insufficiently concerned with true human liberation. In ten chapters covering major thinkers in nineteenth-century American political thought, contributors discuss the rise and resolution of ideological conflicts in the early generations of the American republic. In Challenges to the American Founding Pestritto and West have compiled an invaluable resource for the roots of the twentieth-century departure in American politics from the political vision of the American founders.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Prologue Chapter 2 Republicanism and Constitutional Government in the Political Thought of Andrew Jackson Part 3 The Challenge of Pro-Slavery Thought Chapter 4 John C. Calhoun and the New Science of Race and Politics Chapter 5 Lincoln, Secession, and Revolution: The Civil War Challenge to the Founding Chapter 6 Jefferson Davis and Self-Government Chapter 7 Protecting the Privileges of Citizenship: Founding, Civil War, and Reconstruction Part 8 The Challenges of Positivism, Relativism, and Progressivism Chapter 9 Theology, Metaphysics, and Positivism: The Origins of the Social Sciences and the Transformation of the American University Chapter 10 Shoreless Ocean, Sunless Sea: Henry Adams's Democracy Chapter 11 Walt Whitman's Civic Religion for America Chapter 12 Jane Addams, Benjamin Franklin, and the Problem of Welfare Dependency Chapter 13 Woodrow Wilson, American History, and the Advent of Progressivism


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780739108710
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 314
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Weight: 684 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0739108719
  • Publisher Date: 28 Dec 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nineteenth Century
  • Width: 157 mm


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