Southern History Series: Thomas Carlyle’s Influence on George Fitzhugh
According to Thomas Carlyle, liberalism naturally weakens and degenerates the social fabric by driving “assiduous wedges” in every joint of social existence
According to Thomas Carlyle, liberalism naturally weakens and degenerates the social fabric by driving “assiduous wedges” in every joint of social existence
Secessionists strongly believed in industrial development and state-led economic modernization
In the 1850s, Southern political theorist George Fitzhugh attacks the philosophical foundations of Northern liberalism and free-market capitalism
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The essence of Southern history is the common resolve of White folks that Dixie shall remain a White Man’s Country
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White Southerners largely came to the New World from Great Britain as Anglicans and Presbyterians, but later became Baptists and Methodists. Why did this happen?
The American South was heavily influenced by the organicist tradition of Romantic social theory
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