Francis Lieber and the culture of the mind : fifteen papers devoted to the life, times, and contributions of the nineteenth-century German-American scholar, with an excursus on Francis Lieber's grave : presented at the University of South Carolina's bicentennial year symposium held in Columbia, South Carolina, November 9-10, 2001 / edited by Charles R. Mack and Henry H. Lesesne.
Publisher:
University of South Carolina Press,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
xvii, 196 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
"Published with the assistance of the University of South Carolina Bicentennial Commission." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Prologue : Lieber's place in history / Peter W. Becker -- Leiber, slavery, and the problem of free thought in antebellum South Carolina / Paul Finkelman -- Emancipating the constitution : Lieber and the theory of amendment / Michael Vorenberg -- The stranger in the South / Michael O'Brien -- Francis Lieber's role as archivist of the Confederate records / Robert Wolfe -- Lieber's military code and its legacy / L. Lynn Hogue -- Lieber and the theory of war / James Turner Johnson -- Lieber and the international laws of war / Gregory A. Raymond -- Lieber's theory of homophany / John Catalano -- Observations concerning African-American English in the writings of Francis Lieber / Stuart Davis -- Lieber's moral philosophy : freedom and institution / Jeremiah Hackett -- From moral philosophy to political science : Lieber and the innovations of antebellum political thought / James Farr -- Francis Lieber : transatlantic cultural missionary / Steven Alan Samson -- Lieber and the arts : lessons in looking / Charles R. Mack -- Epilogue : the United States and Germany in the times of Francis Lieber, 1798-1872 / Hermann J. Rupieper -- Excursus : Lieber at the Woodlawn Cemetery / Susan Olsen.
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