'Men and Women of Their Own Kind': Historians and Antebellum ReformUniversal-Publishers, 2003 - 176 páginas This thesis traces the historiography of antebellum reform from its origins in Gilbert Barnes's rebellion from the materialist reductionism of the Progressives to the end of the twentieth century. The focus is the ideas of the historians at the center of the historiography, not a summary of every work in the field. The works of Gilbert Barnes, Alice Felt Tyler, Whitney Cross, C. S. Griffin, Donald Mathews, Paul Johnson, Ronald Walters, George Thomas, Robert Abzug, Steven Mintz, and John Quist, among many others, are discussed. In particular, the thesis examines the social control interpretation and its transformation into social organization under more sympathetic historians in the 1970s. The author found the state of the historiography at century's end to be healthy with a promising future. |
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... example--do not receive the attention they deserve. Nonetheless, I believe that my outline will help readers place works not included herein within the historiographical context. Except for a chapter on defining reform, I have organized ...
... example--do not receive the attention they deserve. Nonetheless, I believe that my outline will help readers place works not included herein within the historiographical context. Except for a chapter on defining reform, I have organized ...
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... example, Wilson claimed that the intellectual historian Vernon Parrington “used Emerson's ideas about the dichotomy between reform and conservatism and thereby put Emerson in line with his own prejudices,” although Wilson's footnotes ...
... example, Wilson claimed that the intellectual historian Vernon Parrington “used Emerson's ideas about the dichotomy between reform and conservatism and thereby put Emerson in line with his own prejudices,” although Wilson's footnotes ...
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... examples he cited, such as “Reform was a wind sweeping through the world” (Allan Nevins, Ordeal of Union) and “reform means merely the reshaping of society” (James Malin, A Concern About Humanity) do show the difficulties that some ...
... examples he cited, such as “Reform was a wind sweeping through the world” (Allan Nevins, Ordeal of Union) and “reform means merely the reshaping of society” (James Malin, A Concern About Humanity) do show the difficulties that some ...
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... example) and ought to be considered reforms for purposes of analysis, but not moral support. Yet he himself rejected antimasonry and nativism as reform movements because both were “fuzzy about what sort of social order they wanted”--a ...
... example) and ought to be considered reforms for purposes of analysis, but not moral support. Yet he himself rejected antimasonry and nativism as reform movements because both were “fuzzy about what sort of social order they wanted”--a ...
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... example--could be so easily classified. Furthermore, both politico- economic reform and social justice petitioned the state for action, while some antebellum reform efforts were directed at changing individuals without state help (e.g. ...
... example--could be so easily classified. Furthermore, both politico- economic reform and social justice petitioned the state for action, while some antebellum reform efforts were directed at changing individuals without state help (e.g. ...
Contenido
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Whitney Crosss The Burnedover District 34 Lessons for the Present Day Arthur Schlesingers American as Reformer 39 III Social Control 19541965 | 44 |
David Donald and His Early Critics | 56 |
The Works of C S Griffin and Charles | 62 |
Timothy L Smiths Revivalism Social Reform 75 Abolitionists Defended Martin Dubermans The Abolitionists | 81 |
Social Organization 19691995 | 92 |
New Directions 19941998 | 134 |
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Página 17 - American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.
Página 58 - Northeastern families, reared in a faith of aggressive piety and moral endeavor, educated for conservative leadership, these young men and women who reached maturity in the 1830's faced a strange and hostile world. Social and economic leadership was being transferred from the country to the city, from the farmer to the manufacturer, from the preacher to the corporation attorney. Too distinguished a family, too gentle an education, too nice a morality were handicaps in a bustling world of business....
Página 28 - The modern psychologist is somewhat skeptical of such explanations. He talks of youthful experiences, maladjustments, inferiority complexes, and repressed desires. He is not so sure about the sources of the reform impulse or the unselfish character of the reformer. The student of social affairs is likewise less inclined to grant unstinted praise to the fanatic and is not certain about the value of the contribution. He views him as a normal product of social phenomena acting on certain types of personality....
Página 1 - He asks who influenced the ancient writer, and how far the statement is consistent with what he said in other books, and what phase in the writer's development, or in the general history of thought, it illustrates, and how it affected later writers, and how often it has been misunderstood (specially by the learned man's own colleagues) and what the general course of criticism on it has been for the last ten years, and what is the 'present state of the question.
Página 59 - Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform: From Bryan to FDR (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955), pp.
Página 18 - Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard, The Rise of American Civilization (New York: Macmillan, 1927) II: Chapters 17 and 18. 14. Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party...
Página 57 - Descended from old and socially dominant Northeastern families, reared in a faith of aggressive piety and moral endeavor, educated for conservative leadership, these young men and women who reached maturity in the 1830's faced a strange and hostile world. Social and economic leadership was being transferred from the country to the city, from the farmer to the manufacturer, from the preacher to the corporation attorney. Too distinguished a family, too gentle an education, too nice a morality were...
Página 63 - Roucek defines social control as: ... a collective term for those processes, planned or unplanned, by which individuals are taught, persuaded, or compelled to conform to the usages and life-values of groups.
Página 73 - Charles I. Foster, An Errand of Mercy: The Evangelical United Front, 1790-1837 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960); and Clifford S. Griffin, Their Brothers' Keepers: Moral Stewardship in the United States, 1800—1865 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1960).
Página 59 - Joseph Greenblum and Leonard I. Pearlin, "Vertical Mobility and Prejudice: A Socio-Psychological Analysis" in Reinhard Bendix and Seymour M.