Moralists and modernizers : America's pre-Civil War reformers /
The Decades before the Civil War saw the first secular efforts in history to remake society through reform. Reformers launched unprecedented campaigns to reform criminals and prostitutes, educate the deaf and the blind, guarantee women's rights, and abolish slavery. Our modern systems of free p...
| Основен автор: | Mintz, Steven, 1953- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
1995.
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The American moment
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Съдържание:
- Ch. 1. The Specter of Social Breakdown
- Ch. 2. The Promise of the Millennium
- Ch. 3. Making the United States a Christian Republic: The Politics of Virtue
- Ch. 4. The Science of Doing Good: Creating Crucibles of Moral Character
- Ch. 5. Breaking the Bonds of Corrupt Custom
- Epilogue: Antebellum Reform and the American Liberal Tradition.