Freedom's ferment : phases of American social history to 1860. /
In this historical synthesis of men and movements, Alice Felt Tyler shows in action the democratic faith of the young American republic. She tells the stories of the reform movements and social and religious experiments characteristic of the early half of the nineteenth century. The early efforts to...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©1944.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. The faith of the young republic: Dynamic democracy
- Evangelical religion
- pt. 2. Cults and Utopias: Transcendentalism
- Millennialism and spiritualism
- The stake in Zion
- Religious communism in America
- The Shaker communities
- American Utopias of religious origin
- Utopian socialism in America
- pt. 3. Humanitarian crusades: Education and the American faith
- Reform for the criminal
- Wards of the state
- The temperance crusade
- Denials of democratic principles
- The crusade for peace
- The rights of women
- Like a fire-bell in the night
- A house divided.