Creating the culture of reform in antebellum America /
T. Gregory Garvey.
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2006.
- xii, 263 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-235) and index.
Discursive democracy and the culture of reform -- Religious pluralism and the origins of the culture of reform -- Sincerity and publicity in the Grimké-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.
0820326852 (hdbk. : alk. paper) 9780820326856
2005014069
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013360162 Uk
Social reformers--History--United States--19th century. Deliberative democracy--History--United States--19th century.
United States--History--1815-1861. United States--Social conditions--To 1865.