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Hellfire nation : the politics of sin in American history / James A. Morone.
LIBRA E183 .M873 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morone, James A., 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- Religion and politics--United States--History.
- Religion and politics.
- History.
- United States--Moral conditions.
- Moral conditions.
- United States--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 575 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Written with passion and deep insight, "Hellfire Nation" tells the story of abrawling, raucous, righteous people, and shows how fears of sin and dreams ofvirtue define the shape of a nation. 43 illustrations.
- Contents:
- Us : the city on a hill
- Them : heretic, heathen, and witch
- The Puritans become America
- The wrath of God in black and white
- Abolition!
- South : the pro-slavery argument
- North : the ragged chorus of the Union
- Purity and the woman's sphere
- White slaves and the modern witch-hunt
- Temperance : crucible of race and class
- Prohibition and the rise of big government
- The New Deal call to alms
- Manifest destiny and the Cold War
- The sixties
- Modern morals.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [499]-560) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0300094841
- OCLC:
- 49942927
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