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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Patterns for the Past | |
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| A Historian's Past: Patterns of Thought and Religious Belief in Early America | |
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| The Persistence of Piety Temperament and the Self Childhood, Temperament, and Religious Experience Toward a New Paradigm | |
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| The Evangelicals: The Self Suppressed | |
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| Authoritarian Families: Modes of Evangelical Child-Rearing | |
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| Pious Parents, Precious Mothers | |
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| The Household Embryo-Angels or Infant Fiends? | |
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| Broken Wills: Discipline and Parental Control | |
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| Regular Methods of Living: External Discipline in Evangelical Households | |
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| Shaping the Evangelical Conscience: Shame, Guilt, and Inner Discipline | |
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| The Vanities, Pleasures, and Sins of Youth: The Emergence of Self and Self-Will | |
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| "A Habitation of Dragons": Themes of Evangelical Temperaments and Piety | |
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| The New Birth "Our Loathsome Corruption and Pollution": Attitudes Toward the Body "That Monster, Self" Broken Wills and Tender Hearts | |
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| Authoritarian Temperaments: Evangelical Responses to Power | |
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| Soldiers for Christ: Anger, Aggression, and Enemies | |
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| Brides of Christ: Femininity, Masculinity, and Sexuality | |
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| The Quest for Purity | |
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| The Moderates: The Self Controlled | |
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| Authoritative Families: Moderate Modes of Child-Rearing | |
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| The Household Setting Innocent Infants Bending the Will: Moderate Discipline and Voluntary Obedience | |
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| "Planting the Seeds of Virtue" in Childhood and Youth Love and Duty: The Obligations of Connection | |
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| Sober, Virtuous, and Pious People: Themes of Moderate Temperaments and Piety | |
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| A Sense of Connections: Organicism and the Chain of Being | |
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| "This Contrariety in Man": The Frailties of Human Nature Self-Approbation and Self-Love | |
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| "The Due Government of the Passions": Self-Control and the Temperate Self-Denial | |
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| "The Liberty of the Human Will" | |
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| "Habits of Piety and Virtue" | |
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| The Renovation of Nature and the Growth of Grace | |
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| "The Bewitching Charms of Despotic Sovereignty": The Boundaries of Power | |
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| "The Choice of Hercules": Manliness or Effeminacy? | |
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| Unbounded Passions: Ambition, Avarice, and Anger Diversity and Order in Church and Community | |
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| The Genteel: The Self Asserted | |
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| Affectionate Families: Genteel Modes of Child-Rearing | |
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| "Our Family Circle" | |
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| "Children Much Indulged" | |
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| Surrogate Parents: Nurses and Servants in the Genteel Household | |
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| "To Curb Their Children Is to Spoil Their Genius" | |
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| From Feminine to Masculine: The Emergence of a Young Gentleman | |
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| "The Great School of the World": Educating Young Gentlemen | |
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| To Become "a Notable Housewife" and "Mother": Educating Young Ladies | |
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| "One Continued Scene of Idleness and Dissipation": The Pleasures of Genteel Youth | |
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| "A Polite and Hospitable People": Themes of Genteel | |
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| Temperaments and Piety Unexamined Selves: The Outward Turning of Consciousness | |
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| The Self Indulged | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| The Clash of Temperaments: Some Reflections on the First American Civil War | |
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| "An American Monarchy or Republic?" | |
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| Mother Country, Father-King: Perceptions of Power and Authority | |
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| The Nature of Liberty Effeminate or Manly?: Seduction, Temptation, and Political Paranoia | |
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| A Revolution of Saints | |
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| The Republic of Virtue Rejected | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Sources | |
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| Index | |