Moralists and modernizers: America's pre-Civil War reformers
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Baltimore [u.a.]
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
2003
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| Series: | The American moment
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| Physical Description: | XXII, 179 S. |
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| adam_text | Contents
Editor s Foreword
ix
AcknowUdgments
xi
Introduction
xiii
Chapter
ι
The Specter of Social Breakdown
3
Chapter
2
The Promise of the Millennium
16
Chapter
3
Making the United States a Christian Republic:
The Politics of Virtue
50
■4
The Science of Doing Good:
Creating Crucibles of Moral Character
79
Chapter
5
Breaking the Bonds of Corrupt Custom
117
Epilogue
Antebellum Reform and
the American Liberal Tradition
154
Bibliographical Essay
157
Index
173
The decades before the Civil War saw the first secular efforts in history to remake
society through reform. Reformers launched unprecedented campaigns to reform
criminals and prostitutes, 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 fasci¬
nating story of America s first age of reform, combining incisive portraits of leading
reformers and movements with perceptive analyses 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 Americas pressing social problems. Moral reform
sought to create a Christian moral order using moral suasion. Social reform combat-
ted poverty» crime, and ignorance through new institutions offering nonauthorkarian
forms of social control. Radical reform sought to regenerate American society by elim¬
inating fundamental sources of inequality such as slavery and racial and sexual dis¬
crimination. In an epilogue, Mintz fits antebellum reform into the larger context of
America s
liberai
tradition.
Mintz concludes that Americas
pre—
Civil War reformers were at once moral critics
and cultural
modernizas.
As exponents of a distinctly modern set of values, reform¬
ers attacked outmoded customs, smoothed the transition from a premdustrial to an
industrial order, and devised modem bureaucratic systems of criminal justice, public
education, and social welfare. The first comprehensive account of 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.
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Contents
Editor's Foreword
ix
AcknowUdgments
xi
Introduction
xiii
Chapter
ι
The Specter of Social Breakdown
3
Chapter
2
The Promise of the Millennium
16
Chapter
3
Making the United States a Christian Republic:
The Politics of Virtue
50
■4
The Science of Doing Good:
Creating Crucibles of Moral Character
79
Chapter
5
Breaking the Bonds of Corrupt Custom
117
Epilogue
Antebellum Reform and
the American Liberal Tradition
154
Bibliographical Essay
157
Index
173
The decades before the Civil War saw the first secular efforts in history to remake
society through reform. Reformers launched unprecedented campaigns to reform
criminals and prostitutes, 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 fasci¬
nating story of America's first age of reform, combining incisive portraits of leading
reformers and movements with perceptive analyses 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 Americas pressing social problems. Moral reform
sought to create a Christian moral order using moral suasion. Social reform combat-
ted poverty» crime, and ignorance through new institutions offering nonauthorkarian
forms of social control. Radical reform sought to regenerate American society by elim¬
inating fundamental sources of inequality such as slavery and racial and sexual dis¬
crimination. In an epilogue, Mintz fits antebellum reform into the larger context of
America's
liberai
tradition.
Mintz concludes that Americas
pre—
Civil War reformers were at once moral critics
and cultural
modernizas.
As exponents of a distinctly modern set of values, reform¬
ers attacked outmoded customs, smoothed the transition from a premdustrial to an
industrial order, and devised modem bureaucratic systems of criminal justice, public
education, and social welfare. The first comprehensive account of 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. |
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