Moralists and Modernizers America's Pre-Civil War Reformers

Name: Moralists and Modernizers America's Pre-Civil War Reformers
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ISBN: 9780801850813

ISBN-10: 0801850819

ISBN-13: 9780801850813

Edition: 1995

Authors: Steven Mintz

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The decades before the Civil War saw the first secular efforts in history to remake society through reform. Reformers launched unprecedented campaigns reform criminals and prostitutes, to educate the deaf and the blind, guarantee women's rights, and abolish slavery. Our modern systems of free public schools, prisons, and hospitals for the mentally ill are all legacies of this era. Moralists and Modernizers tells the fascinating story of America's first age of reform -- combining incisive portraits of leading reformers and movements with perceptive analysis of religion, politics, and society. Arguing that the reform impulse grew out of the era's peculiar mix of fear and hope, Steven Mintz…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 8/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Steven Mintz is Executive Director of the Institute for Transformational Learning at the University of Texas.



Editor's Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Specter of Social Breakdown



The Promise of the Millennium



Making the United States a Christian Republic: The Politics of Virtue



The Science of Doing Good: Creating Crucibles of Moral Character



Breaking the Bonds of Corrupt Custom


Epilogue: Antebellum Reform and the American Liberal Tradition


Bibliographical Essay


Index