ISBN10: 0801850819, ISBN13: 9780801850813, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Softcover New
[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1995]

ISBN10: 0801850819, ISBN13: 9780801850813, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Softcover New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
[Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1995]

Johns Hopkins University Press 1997 Trade paperback This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 400grams, ISBN: 9780801850813.

ISBN10: 0801850819, ISBN13: 9780801850813, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Softcover
[Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1995]
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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. ISBN 0801850819 9780801850813 [US]

ISBN10: 0801850819, ISBN13: 9780801850813, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD] Softcover Paperback. The decades before the Civil War saw the first secular efforts in American history to remake society through reform. Reformers launched unprecedented campaigns to reform criminals and prostitutes, to educate the deaf and the blind, to guarantee women's rights, and to abolish slavery. Modern systems of free public schools, prisons, and hospitals for the mentally ill are all legacies of this era. This book tells the story of America's first age of reform, combining portraits of leading reformers and movements with analysis of religion, politics, and society. Arguing that the reform impulse grew out of the era's peculiar mix of fear and hope, the book 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. It 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. An epilogue fits ...
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ISBN10: 0801850819, ISBN13: 9780801850813, [publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr] Softcover 208 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1995]

ISBN10: 0801850819, ISBN13: 9780801850813, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Softcover
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1995]

Johns Hopkins University Press 1995-08-01 Paperback New Size: 8x5x0; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Johns Hopkins University Press 1995 Trade paperback New

ISBN10: 0801850819, ISBN13: 9780801850813, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Softcover
[Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 1995]