Bøger af Michael Fellman

Throughout his long and influential career, Michael Fellman has explored the tragic side of American history. Incorporating essays written over the past thirty years, Views from the Dark Side of American History reveals some of the major personal and scholarly concerns of his career and illuminates his approach to history.

Making Sense of Self is an historical analysis of the ideological content of a broad sample of late nineteenth-century popular advice literature concerning the body and the mind.

Examines various dimensions of abolitionism from its religious context to its international effect, from its attitude toward the northern poor to its impact on feminism, and from wars of words waged with southern intellectuals to the bloodier conflicts begun in Kansas.

Examines the interaction between Abraham Lincoln and his five key Civil War generals: McClellan, Hooker, Meade, Sherman, and Grant, providing fresh insight into this mixed bag of officers and the president's tireless efforts to work with them. The contributors to this collection take us inside the personalities and relationships that shaped the course of the US's most costly war.

?Analyzing utopian thought from Brisbane to Howells within the changing context of American issues and values, Michael Fellman has given us in The Unbounded Frame a synthesis marked both by breadth of conception and depth of insight.?-Merle Curti

It was Willaim Tecumseh Sherman who both articulated and practiced the relentless scorched-earth policy that broke the heart of the Confederacy. This work illuminates the emotional as well as the intellectual, ideological and occupational lives of this Victorian American.