Harry S Stout: 4 books
American Aristocrats
A Family, a Fortune, and the Making of American Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
The story of an ambitious family at the forefront of the great middle-class land grab that shaped early American capitalism
American Aristocrats is a multigenerational biography of the Andersons of Kentucky, a family of strivers who passionately believed in the promise of America. Beginning...
Upon the Altar of the Nation
A Moral History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
A profound and timely examination of the moral underpinnings of the War Between the States
The Civil War was not only a war of armies but also a war of ideas, in which Union and Confederacy alike identified itself as a moral nation with God on its side. In this watershed book, Harry S. Stout...
The New England Soul
Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
"Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have precede it...The first study of New England preaching to span the entire colonial period...very important book." - Journal of American History "Simply breathtaking in scope. No one else has...
Without Benefit of Clergy
Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2003
The common view of the nineteenth-century pastoral relationship--found in both contemporary popular accounts and 20th-century scholarship--was that women and clergymen formed a natural alliance and enjoyed a particular influence over each other. In Without Benefit of Clergy, Karin Gedge tests this...