Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life - Softcover

Slavery. A problem in American institutional and intellectual life.

Originalbroschur. Zustand: Gut. 2nd. ed. VIII, 263 S. Einband leicht berieben. - An Introduction: Slavery as a Problem in Historiography: The Old Debate -- The Problem of "New Viewpoints" -- Institutions and the Law of Slavery: Institutional Breakdown in an Age of Expansion -- The Dynamics of Unopposed Capitalism -- Slavery in Capitalist and Non-Capitalist Cultures -- Slavery and Personality: Personality Types and Stercotypes -- The "African Culture" Argument -- Shock and Detachment -- Adjustment to Absolute Power in the Concentration Camp -- Three Theories of Personality -- Mechanisms of Resistance to Absolute Power -- Slavery and the Intellectual: Institutions and Insights -- Intellectuals without Responsibility -- Sin, Guilty Innocence, and Reform -- The Transcendentalist as Abolitionist -- The Abolitionist as Transcendentalist -- Choices -- Postscript: Slavery, Consensus, and the Southern Intellect -- APPENDICES Essay on Materials and Method -- The "Profitability" of Slavery -- For the Second Edition. ISBN 0226204758 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Artikel-Nr. 1096482

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