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Challenges to the American Founding
Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nineteenth Century
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2004
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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.
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Copyright year
2004
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-0872-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-5289-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
305
Product type
Edited Book
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Preface Thomas G. West No access
1 Republicanism and Constitutional Government in the Political Thought of Andrew Jackson Richard J. Dougherty No access
2 John C. Calhoun and the New Science of Race and PoliticsThomas L. Krannawitter No access
3 Lincoln, Secession, and Revolution: The Civil War Challenge to the Founding Herman Belz No access
4 Jefferson Davis and Self-Government Will Morrisey No access
5 Protecting the Privileges of Citizenship: Founding, Civil War, and Reconstruction David R. Upham No access
6 Theology, Metaphysics, and Positivism: The Origins of the Social Sciences and the Transformation of the American University John Marini No access
7 Shoreless Ocean, Sunless Sea: Henry Adams's Democracy Charles T Rubin No access
8 Walt Whitman's Civic Religion for America John E. Alvis No access
9 Jane Addams, Benjamin Franklin, and the Problem of Welfare Dependency Joel Schwartz No access
10 Woodrow Wilson, American History, and the Advent of Progressivism Ronald J. Pestritto No access
Index No access Pages 297 - 302
About the Contributors No access Pages 303 - 305
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