An edition of Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown (2005)

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The Legacy of John Brown

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An edition of Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown (2005)

Terrible Swift Sword

The Legacy of John Brown

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"Through the prisms of history, literature, psychology, criminal justice, oral history, African American studies, political science, film studies, and anthropology, Terrible Swift Sword offers insights not only into John Brown's character and motives but also into the nature of a troubled society before, during, and after the Civil War. The contributors discuss reasons why some of Brown's contemporaries supported him, analyze Brown's behavior and his depiction in literature, and examine the iconography and mythology surrounding him from a post-9/11 perspective."--Jacket.

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Ohio University Press
Language
English
Pages
228

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Subjects

Antislavery movements, Influence, Abolitionists, Biography, History, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865

People

John Brown (1800-1859)

Places

United States

Times

19th century
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Table of Contents

Why Theodore Parker backed John Brown : the political and social roots of support for abolitionist violence / Dean Grodzins
They heard his call : the local Black community's involvement in the raid on Harpers Ferry / Hannah Geffert
How Rev. Thomas W. Henry of the AME Church met John Brown / Jean Libby
John Brown as founder : America's violent confrontation with its first principles / Scott John Hammond
John Brown and the legacy of martyrdom / Eyal Naveh
John Brown as "lawless fanatic" : a usable past for the postwar South / Charles J. Holden
A behavioral analysis of John Brown : martyr or terrorist? / James N. Gilbert
A psychological examination of John Brown / Kenneth R. Carroll
Hero, martyr, madman : representations of John Brown in the poetry of the John Brown year, 1859/60 / William Keeney
Beyond history : John Brown, raising holy hell, and posthistorical fiction / Bruce Olds
John Brown's fort : a contested national symbol / Paul A. Shackel
John Brown goes to Hollywood : Santa Fe Trail and Seven angry men / Peggy A. Russo.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Athens
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.7/114
Library of Congress
E451 .T37 2005, E451.T37 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxx, 228 p. :
Number of pages
228

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3393003M
Internet Archive
terribleswiftswo0000unse_e1m3
ISBN 10
0821416308, 0821416316
LCCN
2005002786
OCLC/WorldCat
57613511
LibraryThing
5181573
Goodreads
815051
1436418

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OL18271637W

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