Creating the culture of reform in antebellum America / / T. Gregory Garvey
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| Autore: |
Garvey T. Gregory <1962->
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| Titolo: |
Creating the culture of reform in antebellum America / / T. Gregory Garvey
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| Pubblicazione: | Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.48/4/097309034 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social reformers - United States - History - 19th century |
| Deliberative democracy - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States History 1815-1861 |
| United States Social conditions To 1865 | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-235) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Discursive democracy and the culture of reform -- Religious pluralism and the origins of the culture of reform -- Sincerity and publicity in the Grimke-Beecher debate -- Garrison, Douglass, and the problem of politics -- Emerson's self-reliance as a theory of community -- Epilogue : sincerity and pluralism in critical conversation. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In this study, T. Gregory Garvey illustrates how activists and reformers claimed the instruments of mass media to create a freestanding culture of reform that enabled voices disfranchised by church or state to speak as equals in public debates over the nation's values. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Creating the culture of reform in antebellum America |
| ISBN: | 1-282-55302-X |
| 9786612553028 | |
| 0-8203-3083-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827998103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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