Title: Ideas, ideologies, and social movements : the United States experience since 1800 /
Authors: Coclanis, Peter A., 1952-; Bruchey, Stuart Weems.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Social movements United States History.; Ideology United States History.
Abstract: "A volume that investigates an aspect of social and intellectual history as substantial as it is under-researched, Ideas, Ideologies, and Social Movements uncovers the role of ideas and ideologies in some of the most important social movements in United States history. Thirteen leading historians and sociologists provide in-depth accounts of individual movements - from political democratization, evangelism, feminism, and abolitionism to the support of animal rights, rights for the elderly, children's rights, and civil rights. In doing so, the contributors evaluate the importance of both ideas and a variety of cultural expressions in uniting, energizing, and inspiring individuals; analyze the effectiveness of each movement in translating ideology into actions; and shed new light on similarities and differences among such movements."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Responsibility, convention, and role of ideas in history / Thomas L. Haskell -- Democracy in the United States: from the revolution to the civil war / Lacy K. Ford Jr. -- The Enlightenment and evangelical intellectual life in the nineteenth century / Mark A. Noll -- Ideas behind the women's movement: beginning with Wollstonecraft / Ruth Nadelhaft -- Ideas of the American labor movement, 1880-1950 / Gary Gerstle -- From child labor to child work: changing cultural conceptions of children's economic roles, 1870s-1930s / Viviana A. Zelizer -- The rights of the elderly as a social movement in the United States: the story till 1980 / Eleanor Bruchey -- Why become a citizen?: the strategic ideas of immigrants in the social movement of naturalization / Reed Ueda -- The international human rights movement and the human rights idea / Louis Henkin -- The role of ideas in the African-American civil rights movement: the problem of the color-blind Constitution / Hugh Davis Graham -- Sentiments, ideas, and animals: rights talk and animal protection / James M. Jasper -- Fear and redemption in the environment movement / Donald Worster -- The future of the global environment / Giulio Pontecorvo.