Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-589) and index.
Contents
Dynamic democracy -- Evangelical religion -- Transcendentalism -- Millennialism and Spiritualism -- The stake in Zion -- Religious communism in America -- The Shaker communities -- American utopias of religious origin -- Utopian socialism in America -- Education and the American faith -- Reform for the criminal -- Wards of the state -- The temperance crusade -- Denials of democratic principles -- The crusade for peace -- The rights of women -- Like a fire-bell in the night -- A house divided.
Original Version
Reprint. Originally published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1944. x, 608 p : ill., plates, ports. ; 24 cm.
