Hellfire nation : the politics of sin in American history /
Annotation.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : A nation with the soul of a church
- pt. 1. The Puritan foundations of morality politics (1630-1776). Us : the city on a hill
- Them : heretic, heathen, and witch
- The Puritans become America
- pt. 2. The abolitionist crusade (1800-1865). The wrath of God in Black and white
- Abolition!
- South : the pro-slavery argument
- North : the ragged chorus of the Union
- pt. 3. The Victorian quest for virtue (1870-1929). Purity and the woman's sphere
- White slaves and the modern witch-hunt
- Temperance : crucible of race and class
- Prohibition and the rise of big government
- pt. 4. The Social Gospel at high tide (1932-1973). The New Deal call to alms
- Manifest destiny and the Cold War
- The sixties
- pt. 5. The Puritans roar again. Modern morals.