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Moral problems in American life : new perspectives on cultural history /
American history is filled with moments of grave moral doubt and institutional crisis, with conflicts over fundamental values, with ethical dilemmas and paradoxes. This volume surveys the moral landscape of the American past from slavery to the Vietnam War. Bringing together fourteen of the most ori...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Original themes of voluntary moralism : the Anglo-American reformation of manners / Joel Bernard
- Gothic mystery and the birth of the asylum : the cultural construction of deviance in early-nineteenth-century America / Karen Halttunen
- World's "dirty work" and the wages that "sweeten" it : labor's "extrinsic rewards" in antebellum society / Jonathan A. Glickstein
- Deviance, dominance, and the construction of handedness in turn-of-the-century Anglo-America / Tamara Plakins Thornton
- Black abolitionists and the origins of civil disobedience / Lewis Perry
- "Right to possess all the faculties that God has given" : possessive individualism, slave women, and abolitionist thought / Amy Dru Stanley
- Worrying about the Civil War / Edward L. Ayers
- Caste, class, and equal citizenship / William E. Forbath
- Jewish prayers for the U.S. government : a study in the liturgy of politics and the politics of liturgy / Jonathan D. Sarna
- Interfaith families in Victorian America / Anne C. Rose
- Prophetic ministry and the military chaplaincy during the Vietnam era / Anne C. Loveland
- Listen, my children : modes and functions of poetry reading in American schools, 1880-1950 / Joan Shelley Rubin
- Talking about sex : early-twentieth-century radicals and moral confessions / Christine Stansell
- "What if history was a gambler?" / T.J. Jackson Lears.