The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events 1500-1900)
?The purpose of the Greenwood Guides is to introduce undergraduates and advances high school students to important and complex historical topics. This book briefly summarizes the events, ideas and influence of the Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism, as well as the major schools in the historiography. While the history and historiography is simplified, the work succeeds in its purpose to summarize modern scholarship for beginning student. In addition to the main text, the book also offers biographies, an annotated bibliography, primary source readings, a glossary and an index, making it an excellent research tool for the undergraduate. Recommended for secondary school and university libraries.?-Religious Studies Review