Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Mind of the Master Class (eBook, PDF)

History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview

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Produktbeschreibung

The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ('free-labor') society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to learn from their probing moral and political reflections on their times - and ours - beginning with the virtues and failings of their own society and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511343346
• Artikelnr.: 38185697

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese is Eléonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities at Emory University, where she was founding director of Women's Studies. She is Editor of The Journal of The Historical Society and serves on the Governing Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities (2002¿2008). In 2003 President George Bush honored her with a National Humanities Medal, and the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars honored her with its Cardinal Wright Award. Among her books and published lectures are: The Origins of Physiocracy: Economic Revolution and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century France; Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South; and Feminism without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Cradled in the Storms of Revolution: 1. 'That Terrible Tragedy'
2. The age of revolution through slaveholding eyes
3. 'The Purest Sons of Freedom'
Entr'Acte: the bonds of slavery
Part II. The Inescapable Past: 4. History as moral and political instruction
5. The slaveholders' quest for a history of the common people
6. World history and the politics of slavery
7. History as the story of freedom
Part III. Ancient Legacies, Medieval Sensibility, Modern Men: 8. In the shadow of antiquity
9. Coming to terms with the Middle Ages
10. The chivalry
11. Chivalric slave masters
12. Chivalric politics: Southern ladies take their stand
Part IV. A Christian People Defend the Faith: 13. A Christian people
14. Unity and diversity among the faithful
15. War over the Good Book
16. Slavery: proceeding from the Lord
17. The Holy Spirit in the word of God
18. Jerusalem and Athens - against Paris
19. Serpent in the garden: liberal theology in the South
20. Theopolitics: golden rule, higher law, and slavery
Coda: St. John of Pottawatamie
Part V. At the Rubicon: 21. Between individualism and corporatism: from the reformation to the war for Southern Independence
22. Past and future Caesars
Epilogue: King Solomon's dilemma.