Bücher von Michael Fellman

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.

?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.