Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Specter of Social Breakdown
Chapter 2. The Promise of the Millennium
Chapter 3. Making the United States a Christian Republic: The Politics of Virtue
Chapter 4. The Science of Doing Good: Creating Crucibles of Moral Character
Chapter 5. Breaking the Bonds of Corrupt Custom
Epilogue: Antebellum Reform and the American Liberal Tradition
Bibliographical Essay
Index

About the Author

Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Houston. His books include A Prison of Expectations: The Family in Victorian Culture and Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life.

Reviews

[A] well-written, attention-grabbing synethesis of the antebellum reform movement in the US... Mintz makes accessible to readers of all levels a good, solid historical study comparing all of these important movements. Choice This text stands tall, offering historical perspective to issues that still baffle the American people and demonstrating how perennial are the battles for equal justice and social transformation. Cross Currents: Religion and Intellectual Life