Moral reconstruction : Christian lobbyists and the Federal legislation of morality, 1865-1920 /
An examination and analysis of the appetite and avarice that led religious organizations to call for moral legislation to regulate such activities as sexuality, divorce, and gambling. This account underscores the role of white southerners who seized on these new laws to control African Americans.
Основен автор: | Foster, Gaines M. |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
℗♭2002.
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Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=82161 |
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Moral reconstruction. |
Съдържание:
- The antebellum moral polity
- Christ and prohibition in the Constitution?
- Sexuality and the family
- Appetite, avarice
- and an alliance
- The Sabbath and religious authority
- The lottery and the South
- A broad agenda of moral legislation
- Aligning the government against alcohol
- The final step : prohibition.