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Benjamin Morgan Palmer: Southern Presbyterian Divine


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dc.contributor.advisorCarey, Anthony G.
dc.contributor.advisorNoe, Kennethen_US
dc.contributor.advisorIsrael, Charlesen_US
dc.contributor.authorDuncan, Christopheren_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-02-23T15:55:09Z
dc.date.available2009-02-23T15:55:09Z
dc.date.issued2008-12-15en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10415/1467
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this dissertation is to provide an updated life-and-times biography of a major religious and political figure in nineteenth-century American history, Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1818-1902). Palmer rubbed elbows and held sway with a virtual --Y΄Who’s-Who--Y‘ of American religious, political, and cultural life, both North and South. He was the most influential religious figure in the largest, most cosmopolitan southern city before, during, and after the Civil War. The only published biography of Palmer, however, was produced in 1906. A figure of such stature is due for an updated treatment, especially in light of several new primary source documents that were not available to Palmer’s original biographer. Much of the evidence challenges and enhances current commonly held understandings of religious, familial, and political historiography.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.titleBenjamin Morgan Palmer: Southern Presbyterian Divineen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US
dc.embargo.lengthNO_RESTRICTIONen_US
dc.embargo.statusNOT_EMBARGOEDen_US

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