Interpretations of American history
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Books in this Series
Reconstruction
Pt. 1: Prospect and retrospect- two contemporary views; Pt. 2: Negro suffrage, pro and con; Pt. 3 : Economic approaches; Pt. 4: An American tragedy.
The search for community in modern America
These essays address how various factors impact upon the modern community, including factories, corporations, churches, universities, the decline of the inner city and the growth of suburbs, and racial issues.
Ante-bellum reform
New England reformers, by R. W. Emerson.--The northern attack on slavery, by A. Craven.--The abolitionists and psychology, by M. B. Duberman.--The psychology of commitment: the constructive role of violence and suffering for the individual and for his society, by S. S. Tomkins.--The Anglo-American world of humanitarian endeavor, by F. Thistlethwaite.--Religious benevolence as social control, 1815-1860, by C. S. Griffin.--Charles Grandison Finney, by W. G. McLoughlin.--Religious groups and political parties, by L. Benson.--Temperance, status control, and mobility, 1826-1860, by J. R. Gusfield.--The emergence of immediatism in British and American antislavery thought, by D. B. Davis.--Romantic reform in America, 1815-1865, by J. L. Thomas.--Selective bibliography (p. 177-180).