Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares: The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict

by John H Matsui

Book Overview

In Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares, John H. Matsui argues that the political ideology and racial views of American Protestants during the Civil War mirrored their religious optimism or pessimism regarding human nature, perfectibility, and the millennium. While previous historians have commented on the role of antebellum eschatology in political alignment, none have delved deeply into how religious views complicate the standard...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807174823
• ISBN13: 9780807174821
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"