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02742cam a2200361 i 4500 |
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19229603 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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MiTN |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20190729110630.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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160812s2017 mau b 001 0 eng c |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2016037370 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780674659544 |
| Qualifying information |
(cloth) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
MH/DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
MH |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
HN57 |
| Item number |
.G827 2017 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
303.48/4092 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Gura, Philip F., |
| Dates associated with a name |
1950- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Man's better angels : |
| Remainder of title |
romantic reformers and the coming of the Civil War / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Philip F. Gura. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
315 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
volume |
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rdacarrier |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Man's Better Angels explores the ideas that influenced antebellum reform efforts in the United States, especially after the social, political, and economic shocks the country suffered after the Panic of 1837. The Panic also galvanized reformers, encouraging some to act and others to act even more aggressively. Overwhelmingly, these reformers were animated by an ethic of individualism and self-reliance through which they believed social harmony was possible. The beliefs and assumptions that informed these reformers' solutions to America's most intractable problems presumed a causal chain that began with the reformation of individuals, and through them communities, and through them the nation and world. They repeatedly ran into hard political and economic realities that were at the core of the country's malaise but unfortunately chose to turn their effort in other directions. Gura uses seven individuals--George Ripley, Horace Greeley, William B. Greene, Orson Squire Fowler, Mary Gove Nichols, Henry David Thoreau, and John Brown--to explore the finally futile efforts of antebellum reformers to apply their solutions to America's problems, which ranged from growing inequality to the most intractable problem of all, slavery.-- |
| Assigning source |
Provided by publisher |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
George Ripley, Transcendentalist dreamer -- Horace Greeley and the French connection -- William B. Greene and the allure of mutualism -- O. S. Fowler: reading the national character, for a price -- Mary Gove Nichols: individual health and sovereignty -- Thoreau's nullification -- John Brown and the bankruptcy of conscience. |
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1 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Social reformers |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Social problems |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
1815-1861. |
| 948 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC); SERIES PART DESIGNATOR (RLIN) |
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| Series part designator, SPT (RLIN) |
u620898 |
| 949 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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HN57 .G827 2017 |
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LC |
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EY8Z |
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33039001407278 |
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34338 |