The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (618 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521615623 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 824 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Darrell J. Hartwick said A Wealth of Detail, Fascinating insights. For a scholarly work, this is quite interesting. It will be of great interest to those with a passion for Southern history and culture, as well as those like me who are bewildered by the idea of decent, civilized people defending and profiting from such a brutal institution as slavery. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese is, in no way, an apologist for slavery or any other form of human oppression, but she does fairly treat this neglected side of the 19th c. debate. I was part. "Understanding over polemicizing" according to James A. Sullivan. The Mind of the Master Class is a tour de force, a kind of Wagnerian opus that brings the Southern elites into focus. We learn what they thought about; Scripture, the French Revolution. the classics and yes, their own slave owning. Instead of viewing them as merely a plague in history, we follow their opinions in such detail that they are humanized despite the current mood to simply dismiss them as a countersign on our road to progress. The erudition in this work . mark twain said This monograph requires patience and dedication; it is also one of the triumphsof American historical scholarship. Ms. McKinney would do herself much good if she would either content herself with failing to commit the intellectual energy required by this book or to at least be content to wait until she has grasped the work before thoughtlessly dismissing a text she feels has defeated her. The authors did not intend this work to be an easy read; the weight of the book should dismiss any illusions a non-committed reader may have about bringing this along to the beach for a littl
Fox-Genovese and Genovese serve on the editorial boards of a number of scholarly journals and are co-authors of Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese is Eléonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities at Emory University, where she was founding director of Women's Studies. Among her books and pub
The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ("free-labor") society. Presenting many slaveholders as intelligent, honorable and pious men and women, this study asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that inflicted gross abuse on slaves. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action.
Tate, Clayton State University, Journal of Social History"the Genoveses offer us one more insight into the Southern mind." -Hal Goldman, Historie sociale . They seem to have read all the books that their subjects read and talked about and are thus able to get inside their minds to a remarkable degree." -New York Review of Books"This book is one that libraries of colleges offering courses in American history ought to acquire." -Catholic Library World"Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, focusing as they should on religion and political thought, have turned their immense learning and acuity to presenting the strongest case possible about the slaveholders intellectual and moral virtues, as well as their enormous failings and tragedies. "In exploring their terrible and complex subject with honesty and sym