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It 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

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[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 Contents

Editor'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

Moralists and Modernizers Americas PreCivil War

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 September 1995
      ISBN-13 9780801850813
      978-0801850813
      ISBN-10 0801850819
      Also in:
      Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      It 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 Contents

      Editor'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

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