John Brown in memory and myth /

"This is the story of John Brown, the age he embodied and the myth he became, and how the tragic gravity of his actions transformed America's past and future. Through biographical narrative, his life and legacy are discussed as a study in metaphor and power, and the nature of historical me...

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主要作者: Daigh, Michael, 1977- (Author)
格式: 電子 電子書
語言:英语
出版: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Incorporated, Publishers, 2015.
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書本目錄:
  • Part I. The lehrejahre
  • How the true world finally became a fable
  • Rationality ex post facto
  • New millennium homes
  • The prejudices of philosophers and historians
  • Peoples and nations
  • The stillest hour
  • The land of education
  • Part II. The wanderjahre
  • All too human
  • The stasis
  • Beyond good and evil
  • Skirmishes of an untimely man
  • The return home
  • The child with the mirror
  • Preparatory men
  • The convalescent wanderer
  • Part III. Dies irae, dies illa
  • The means to real peace
  • Upon these stones
  • Like ashes in the fall
  • The revelation of John Brown
  • The metaphysics of the hangman
  • Where faith is needed
  • The history of an error
  • The last witness.