The American Civil War as a social revolution: the Enlightenment, providential consciousness and changes in moral perception
Journal Title: English Studies at NBU - Year 2015, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
This article analyses Enlightenment ideas and nation-making practices in the American Civil War and pre-War civil societies. It analyses African American mobilization and the abolitionist movement, and Lincoln’s role in war, reconciliation and development. The international context is investigated in a case for relational nation making. The role of non-violent mobilization is assessed. It examines the war’s social revolutionary implications. The war’s unprecedented violence anticipated 20th century total war, fundamentally deciding the republic’s future. State/civil society interactions, and changes in public moral perception, reshape longstanding institutional arrangements, and decide core ethical issues including the meaning of humanity.
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Tadd Graham Fernée
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- DOI 10.33919/esnbu.15.1.7
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