PDF The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War by Daniel W. Hamilton in History

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T. J. Jackson Lears draws on a wealth of primary sources — sermons; diaries; letters — as well as novels; poems; and essays to explore the origins of turn-of-the-century American antimodernism. He examines the retreat to the exotic; the pursuit of intense physical or spiritual experiences; and the search for cultural self-sufficiency through the Arts and Crafts movement. Lears argues that their antimodern impulse; more pervasive than historians have supposed; was not "simple escapism;" but reveals some enduring and recurring tensions in American culture."It's an understatement to call No Place of Grace a brilliant book. . . . It's the first clear sign I've seen that my generation; after marching through the '60s and jogging through the '70s might be pausing to examine what we've learned; and to teach it."—Walter Kendrick; Village Voice"One can justly make the claim that No Place of Grace restores and reinterprets a crucial part of American history. Lears's method is impeccable."—Ann Douglas; The Nation