Ante-bellum reform/

Other Authors: Davis, David Brion
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967
Series:Interpretations of American history
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Table of Contents:
  • New England reformers, by R. W. Emerson.
  • The northern attack on slavery, by A. Craven.
  • The abolitionists and psychology, by M. B. Duberman.
  • The psychology of commitment: the constructive role of violence and suffering for the individual and for his society, by S. S. Tomkins.
  • The Anglo-American world of humanitarian endeavor, by F. Thistlethwaite.
  • Religious benevolence as social control, 1815-1860, by C. S. Griffin.
  • Charles Grandison Finney, by W. G. McLoughlin.
  • Religious groups and political parties, by L. Benson.
  • Temperance, status control, and mobility, 1826-1860, by J. R. Gusfield.
  • The emergence of immediatism in British and American antislavery thought, by D. B. Davis.
  • Romantic reform in America, 1815-1865, by J. L. Thomas.