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The decades before the Civil War saw the first secular efforts in history to remake society through reform. Reformers launched unprecedented campaigns reform criminals and prostitutes, to educate the deaf and the blind, guarantee women's rights, and abolish slavery. Our modern systems of free public schools, prisons, and hospitals for the mentally ill are all legacies of this era. Moralists and Modernizers tells the fascinating story of America's first age of reform-combining incisive portraits of leading reformers and movements with perceptive analysis of religion, politics, and society. Arguing that the reform impulse grew out of the era's peculiar mix of fear and hope, Steven Mintz shows that reform arose not only from fears of social disorder, family fragmentation, and widening class divisions, but also from a millennialist sense of possibility rooted in new religious and philosophical ideas. He then examines three distinct responses to pre-Civil War America's pressing social problems. Moral reform sought to create a Christian moral order using moral suasion. Social reform combatted poverty, crime, and ignorance through new institutions offering non-authoritarian forms of social control. Radical reform sought to regenerate American society by eliminating fundamental sources of inequality such as slavery and racial and sexual discrimination. In an epilogue, Mintz fits antebellum reform into the larger context of America's liberal tradition. Mintz concludes that America's pre-Civil War reformers were at once moral critics and cultural modernizers. As exponents of a distinctly modern set of values, reformers attacked outmoded customs, smoothed the transition from a preindustrial to an industrial order, and devised modern bureaucratic systems of criminal justice, public education, and social welfare. The first comprehensive account antebellum reform to appear in twenty years, Moralists and Modernizers is a rich and rewarding work of synthesis and interpretation which draws upon the most recent historical research. ''This book charts a middle ground between those who regard reform as a form of class-based social control and those who stress reformers' benevolent intentions. It emphasizes the duality of antebellum reform, which blended impulses toward social and moral uplift with impulses to impose new codes of personal conduct, shape character, and construct new institutions of social control.''-from Moralists and Modernizers

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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801850819
ISBN-13
9780801850813
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Author
Steven Mintz
Publication Name
Moralists and Modernizers : America's Pre-Civil War Reformers
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
The American Moment Ser.
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Hn57.M56 1995
Grade from
College Graduate Student
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""This text stands tall, offering historical perspective to issues that still baffle the American people and demonstrating how perennial are the battles for equal justice and social transformation."", [A] well-written, attention-grabbing synethesis of the antebellum reform movement in the US... Mintz makes accessible to readers of all levels a good, solid historical study comparing all of these important movements., This text stands tall, offering historical perspective to issues that still baffle the American people and demonstrating how perennial are the battles for equal justice and social transformation.
Table of Content
Editor's Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Specter of Social Breakdown Chapter 2. The Promise of the Millennium Chapter 3. Making the United States a Christian Republic: The Politics of Virtue Chapter 4. The Science of Doing Good: Creating Crucibles of Moral Character Chapter 5. Breaking the Bonds of Corrupt Custom Epilogue : Antebellum Reform and the American Liberal Tradition Bibliographical Essay Index
Copyright Date
1995
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Slavery, United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Lccn
94-043690
Dewey Decimal
306/.0973
Dewey Edition
20
Genre
History, Social Science

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