Description
Book SynopsisIt emphasizes the duality of antebellum reform, which blended impulses toward social and moral uplift with impulses to impose new codes of personal conduct, shape character, and construct new institutions of social control."-from Moralists and Modernizers
Trade Review[A] well-written, attention-grabbing synethesis of the antebellum reform movement in the US... Mintz makes accessible to readers of all levels a good, solid historical study comparing all of these important movements. Choice This text stands tall, offering historical perspective to issues that still baffle the American people and demonstrating how perennial are the battles for equal justice and social transformation. Cross Currents: Religion and Intellectual Life
Table of ContentsEditor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Specter of Social Breakdown
Chapter 2. The Promise of the Millennium
Chapter 3. Making the United States a Christian Republic: The Politics of Virtue
Chapter 4. The Science of Doing Good: Creating Crucibles of Moral Character
Chapter 5. Breaking the Bonds of Corrupt Custom
Epilogue: Antebellum Reform and the American Liberal Tradition
Bibliographical Essay
Index
