Challenges to the American Founding
Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nineteenth Century
Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West
ISBN: | 9780739152898 |
Publisher: | Lexington Books |
Published: | 28 December, 2004 |
Format: | ePub |
Challenges to the American Founding
Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nineteenth Century
Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West
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,
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