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5%OFFMark A. Lause - Free Spirits: Spiritualism, Republicanism, and Radicalism in the Civil War Era - 9780252081750 - V9780252081750
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Free Spirits: Spiritualism, Republicanism, and Radicalism in the Civil War Era

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Description for Free Spirits: Spiritualism, Republicanism, and Radicalism in the Civil War Era Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; JPF; VXW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
Often dismissed as a nineteenth-century curiosity, spiritualism influenced the radical social and political movements of its time. Believers filled the ranks of the Free Democrats, agitated for land and monetary reform, fought for abolition, and held egalitarian leanings that found powerful expression in campaigns for gender and racial equality. In Free Spirits , Mark A. Lause considers spiritualism as a political and cultural force in Civil War-era America. Lause reveals the scope, spread, and influence of the movement, both in its links to reformist causes and its ability to amplify previously marginalized voices. Rooting spiritualism's appeal in the crises of ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252081750
SKU
V9780252081750
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About Mark A. Lause
Mark A. Lause is a professor of American history at the University of Cincinnati and the author of numerous books, including Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class; A Secret Society History of the Civil War; Price's Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri; and Race and Radicalism in the Union Army.

Reviews for Free Spirits: Spiritualism, Republicanism, and Radicalism in the Civil War Era
"Calling on an impressive range of sources including weekly journals, essays, letters, and various organizational reports, Lause clearly demonstrates the wealth of evidence supporting the influence of spiritualists… Recommended."
Choice   "Opens a door between works that consider spiritualism as a purely religious phenomenon and works that deal with the history of the reform movements of the time in purely ... Read more

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