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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455357903321

Autore

Taiz Lillian

Titolo

Hallelujah lads & lasses [[electronic resource] ] : remaking the Salvation Army in America, 1880-1930 / / Lillian Taiz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8078-7566-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Disciplina

287.9/6/0973

Soggetti

Electronic books.

United States History 19th century

United States History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-233) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One: Missionaries to America; Chapter Two: "Red Hot Men and Women" in the Salvation Army, 1879-1896; Chapter Three: The World Salvationists Made; Chapter Four: A New Message of Temporal Salvation; Chapter Five: Salvationism at the Turn of the Century; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Placing her focus on the membership of the Salvation Army and its transformation as an organization within the broader context of literature on class, labour and women's history, Taiz reveals the character of American working-class culture and religion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.