Ante-bellum reform.
Series: Interpretations of American history
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Social reformers -- United States.; United States -- Social conditions.
Table of contents: value: New England reformers, by R. W. Emerson.; value: The northern attack on slavery, by A. Craven.; value: The abolitionists and psychology, by M. B. Duberman.; value: The psychology of commitment: the constructive role of violence and suffering for the individual and for his society, by S. S. Tomkins.; value: The Anglo-American world of humanitarian endeavor, by F. Thistlethwaite.; value: Religious benevolence as social control, 1815-1860, by C. S. Griffin.; value: Charles Grandison Finney, by W. G. McLoughlin.; value: Religious groups and political parties, by L. Benson.; value: Temperance, status control, and mobility, 1826-1860, by J. R. Gusfield.; value: The emergence of immediatism in British and American antislavery thought, by D. B. Davis.; value: Romantic reform in America, 1815-1865, by J. L. Thomas.; value: Selective bibliography (p. 177-180)