Ante - Bellum reform edited by David Brion Davis

Contenido: New England reformes, by R.W. Emerson. the northern attack on slavery by A. Craven the abolitionist and psychology by M.B. Duberman. The psychology of conmitment the constructive rolo of violence anad 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. McLaughlin. Religious groups and political parties, by L. Benson Temperance, status control and mobility, 1826-1860, by J.R. Gusfield the emergence of immedatism in British and American antislavery thought, by D.B. Davis. Romantic reform in America, 1815-1865, by J.L. ThomasSelective bibliography (p. 177-180)