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The Antislavery Debate

Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation

By: John Ashworth,David Brion Davis,Thomas L. Haskell

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The Antislavery Debate

Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation

By: John Ashworth,David Brion Davis,Thomas L. Haskell

The marrow of the most important historiographical controversy since the 1970s."—Michael Johnson, University of California, Irvine "A debate of intellectual significance and power. The implications of these essays extend far beyond antislavery, important as that subject undoubtedly is. This will be of major importance to students of historical method as well as the history of ideas and reform movements."—Carl N. Degler, Stanford University

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Univ of California Press

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0520077792

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9780520077799

Objectivity Is Not Neutrality

Explanatory Schemes in History

By: Thomas L. Haskell

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Objectivity Is Not Neutrality

Explanatory Schemes in History

By: Thomas L. Haskell

Haskell explores topics ranging from the productivity of slave labor to the cultural concomitants of capitalism, from John Stuart Mill's youthful "mental crisis" to the cognitive preconditions that set the stage for antislavery and other humanitarian reforms after 1750. He traces the surprisingly short history of the word responsibility, which turns out to be no older than the United States. And he asks whether the epistemological radicalism of recent years carries the power to justify human rights - rights of academic freedom, for example, or the right not to be tortured.

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446

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JHU Press

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0801865352

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9780801865350

American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract

By: Brook Thomas

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American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract

By: Brook Thomas

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in `1997.

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Univ of California Press

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0520326113

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9780520326118

Intellect and Public Life

Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States

By: Thomas Bender

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Intellect and Public Life

Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States

By: Thomas Bender

At a time of much unease in academia and among the general public about the relation of intellect to public life, Thomas Bender explores both the 19th-century origins and the 20th-century configurations of academic intellect in the United States. "Bender's positive, generous civil voice injects a soothing dose of optimism into current academic debates . . . ".--AMERICAN QUARTERLY.

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0801857848

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9780801857843

"Lincoln's Humor" and Other Essays

By: Benjamin P. Thomas

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"Lincoln's Humor" and Other Essays

By: Benjamin P. Thomas

This volume gathers the best previously unpublished and uncollected writings on Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln scholarship by one of his great biographers, Benjamin P. Thomas. A skilled historian and a masterful storyteller himself, Thomas was widely regarded as the greatest Lincoln historian of his generation. With these essays, he combines historical depth with narrative grace in delineating Lincoln's qualities as a humorist, lawyer, and politician. From colorful tall tales to clever barbs aimed at political opponents, Lincoln clothed a shrewd wit in a homespun, backwoods vernacular. He used humor to defuse tension, illuminate a point, put others at ease--and sometimes for sheer fun. From an early reliance on broad humor and ridicule in speeches and on the stump, Lincoln's style shifted in 1854 to a more serious vein in which humor came primarily to elucidate an argument. "If I did not laugh occasionally I should die," he is said to have told his cabinet, "and you need this medicine as much as I do." Thomas brings his deep knowledge of Lincoln to essays on the great man's tumultuous career in Congress, his work as a lawyer, his experiences in the Courts, and his opinions of the South. A gracious survey of Lincoln's early biographers, particularly Ida Tarbell, stands alongside an appreciation of Harry Edward Pratt, a key figure in the early days of the Abraham Lincoln Association. Thomas also assesses Lincoln's use of language and the ongoing significance of the Gettysburg Address. This diverse collection is enhanced by an introduction by Michael Burlingame, himself a leading biographer of Lincoln. Burlingame provides a balanced portrait of Thomas and his circuitous path toward writing history.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252056388

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9780252056383

A Nation Among Nations

America's Place in World History

By: Thomas Bender

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A Nation Among Nations

America's Place in World History

By: Thomas Bender

An original, ambitious, and consistently provocative book that should change the way we study and teach American history." --Eric Foner, Columbia University In this major book, Thomas Bender recasts the developments central to American history by setting them in a global context, and showing both the importance and ordinariness of America's international entanglements over five centuries. Bender focuses on five major themes, beginning with 1492 and "the age of discovery," when people everywhere first felt the transforming effects of oceanic trade. He asks us to see our Revolution as one of several similar rebellions around the globe, and the Civil War as part of a larger history associating the new meaning of nationhood with freedom. He also examines the American commitment to empire from Jefferson's presidency to our own time, and makes it clear that America's responses to capitalist industrialization and urbanization were part of a worldwide conversation.

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Macmillan

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0809072351

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9780809072354

The Bureaucratic Labor Market

The Case of the Federal Civil Service

By: Thomas A. DiPrete

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The Bureaucratic Labor Market

The Case of the Federal Civil Service

By: Thomas A. DiPrete

A description of the jobs in a labor force, an "occupational" description of it, is an abstraction for describing the flow of concrete work that goes through one or more employing organizations; the flow of work proba bly changes at a higher speed than the system for abstracting a descrip tion of its occupations and jobs. A career system is an abstraction for describing the flow of workers through a system of occupations or jobs, and thus is doubly removed from the flow of work. The federal civil service, however, ties many of the incentives and much of the authority to the flow of work through the abstractions of its career system, and still more of them through its system of job descriptions. The same dependence of the connection between reward and performance on abstractions about jobs and careers characterizes most white-collar work in large organizations. The system of abstractions from the flow of work of the federal civil service, described here by Thomas A. DiPrete, is an institution, a set of valued social practices created in a long and complex historical process. The system is widely imitated, especially in American state and local governments, but also in the white-collar parts of many large private corporations and nonprofit organizations and to some degree by gov ernments abroad. DiPrete has done us a great service in studying the historical origins of this system of abstractions, especially of the career abstractions.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1489908498

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9781489908490

The New Gloucester Centennial, September 7, 1874

By: Thomas Hawes Haskell

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The New Gloucester Centennial, September 7, 1874

By: Thomas Hawes Haskell

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385395534

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The Antislavery Debate

The Antislavery Debate

Objectivity Is Not Neutrality

Objectivity Is Not Neutrality

American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract

American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract

Intellect and Public Life

Intellect and Public Life

"Lincoln's Humor" and Other Essays

"Lincoln's Humor" and Other Essays

A Nation Among Nations

A Nation Among Nations

The Bureaucratic Labor Market

The Bureaucratic Labor Market

The New Gloucester Centennial, September 7, 1874

The New Gloucester Centennial, September 7, 1874

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