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Ante-Bellum Reform
by David Brion, Comp. Davis
Product Group: Book
Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) (1967-01)
ISBN: 006041555X
EAN: 9780060415556
Paperback: 180 pages
SKU: 113441
Condition: Very Good
Comments: 006041555X Contains scant, helpful underling of some important bits. Cover shows very light shelf wear. Interior evidences only gentle use. Overall, very serviceable. Your book will be carefully protected for transit in sturdy, weather-resistant packaging. We are prompt, efficient, communicative.
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Compilation of important interpretive essays
Rating  (4)
Date: 2000-07-17
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
This work is a collection of important interpretive essays about antebellum reform. It includes the brilliant C. S. Griffin's original "Religious Benevolence as Social Control," written while he was still a graduate student and first published in 1957. This essay, as well as his THEIR BROTHERS' KEEPERS (published a few years later), shaped the historiography for years to come. In it, Griffin argued that reform was the means used by Eastern religious elites to control the fast-changing society. Even as late as the 1980s, some believed (somewhat doubtfully) that the "social control" school was still the dominant interpretation of antebellum reform. Also included is the most controversial chapter from Avery Craven's THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR, in which he claims that fanatic abolitionists, motivated by psychological maladjustments, were responsible for the Civil War. Martin Duberman's excellent "The Abolitionists and Psychology" is included to provide a counterpoint. Rounding out the collection are other essays and chapter excerpts from such eminent scholars as Silvan Tomkins, Frank Thistlethwaite, William McLoughlin, Lee Benson, Joseph Gusfield, David Brion Davis, and John L. Thomas. All in all, this is an excellent compilation of interpretative essays from (mostly) mid-century scholars. Books like this, however, are becoming obsolete as the internet makes journal articles more widely available to students and academics. Nonetheless, any serious student of antebellum reform needs to be familiar with the contents herein, and nothing beats a good book for convenience.
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