Abraham Lincoln as a man of ideas
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press
2009
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| Online Access: | Sumario |
| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991006772479708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: what would Lincoln do?
- The unlikely intellectual biography of Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln and the doctrine of necessity
- Come-outers and community-men: Abraham Lincoln and the idea of community in nineteenth-century America
- Lincoln and natural law
- "Fiends ... facing Zionwards": Abraham Lincoln's reluctant embrace of the abolitionists
- Apples of gold in a picture of silver: Lincoln, the constitution, and liberty
- Understanding emancipation: Lincoln's proclamation and the end of slavery
- Defending emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling letter, August 1863
- Prudence and the Proclamation
- Lincoln and the "war powers" of the Presidency
