{"product_id":"the-mind-of-the-master-class-history-and-faith-in-the-southern-slaveholders-worldview-hardback-9780521850650","title":"The Mind of the Master Class; History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview (Hardback) 9780521850650","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Mind of the Master Class\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHistory and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElizabeth Fox-Genovese (Author), Eugene D. Genovese (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521850650, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 October 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e824 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.3 x 16.2 x 4.8 cm, 1.308 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'[Eugene D. Genovese] enlivened a stagnant field by bringing a Marxist analysis to the sectional conflict.' London Review of Books\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ('free-labor') society. 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. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to learn from their probing moral and political reflections on their times - and ours - beginning with the virtues and failings of their own society and culture.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Cradled in the Storms of Revolution: 1. 'That Terrible Tragedy'\u003cbr\u003e 2. The age of revolution through slaveholding eyes\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'The Purest Sons of Freedom'\u003cbr\u003e Entr'Acte: the bonds of slavery\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Inescapable Past: 4. History as moral and political instruction\u003cbr\u003e 5. The slaveholders' quest for a history of the common people\u003cbr\u003e 6. World history and the politics of slavery\u003cbr\u003e 7. History as the story of freedom\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Ancient Legacies, Medieval Sensibility, Modern Men: 8. In the shadow of antiquity\u003cbr\u003e 9. Coming to terms with the Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003e 10. The chivalry\u003cbr\u003e 11. Chivalric slave masters\u003cbr\u003e 12. Chivalric politics: Southern ladies take their stand\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. A Christian People Defend the Faith: 13. A Christian people\u003cbr\u003e 14. Unity and diversity among the faithful\u003cbr\u003e 15. War over the Good Book\u003cbr\u003e 16. Slavery: proceeding from the Lord\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Holy Spirit in the word of God\u003cbr\u003e 18. Jerusalem and Athens - against Paris\u003cbr\u003e 19. Serpent in the garden: liberal theology in the South\u003cbr\u003e 20. Theopolitics: golden rule, higher law, and slavery\u003cbr\u003e Coda: St. John of Pottawatamie\u003cbr\u003e Part V. At the Rubicon: 21. Between individualism and corporatism: from the reformation to the war for Southern Independence\u003cbr\u003e 22. Past and future Caesars\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: King Solomon's dilemma.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Slavery \u0026amp; abolition of slavery [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Slavery \u0026amp; abolition of slavery\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Slavery%20\u0026amp;%20abolition%20of%20slavery%20%5BHBTS%5D%22\"\u003eHBTS\u003c\/a\u003e], Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Modern%20history%20to%2020th%20century:%20c%201700%20to%20c%201900%20%5BHBLL%5D%22\"\u003eHBLL\u003c\/a\u003e], History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913326190872,"sku":"9780521850650","price":62.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521850650i_88b072e9-132d-4eeb-9395-06aa892ab554.jpg?v=1691368811","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-mind-of-the-master-class-history-and-faith-in-the-southern-slaveholders-worldview-hardback-9780521850650","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}