Moral Reconstruction

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Between 1865 and 1920, Congress passed laws to regulate obscenity, sexuality, divorce, gambling, and prizefighting. It forced Mormons to abandon polygamy, attacked interstate prostitution, made narcotics contraband, and stopped the manufacture and sale of alcohol. Gaines Foster explores the force behind this unprecedented federal regulation of personal morality--a combined Christian lobby. Foster analyzes the fears of appetite and avarice that led organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the National Reform Association to call for moral legislation and examines the efforts and interconnections of the men and women who lobbied for it. His account underscores the crucial role white southerners played in the rise of moral reform after 1890. With emancipation, white southerners no longer needed to protect slavery from federal intervention, and they seized on moral legislation as a tool for controlling African Americans. Enriching our understanding of the aftermath of the Civil War and the expansion of national power, Moral Reconstruction also offers valuable insight into the link between historical and contemporary efforts to legislate morality.

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Genre : History
Author : Gaines M. Foster
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Release : 2003-04-03
File : 340 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780807860168


Truth An Essay In Moral Reconstruction

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Author : Charles Walston
Publisher : CUP Archive
Release : 1919
File : 264 Pages
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War And The Moral Reconstruction Of Theology

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Genre : California
Author : Floyd Hardin
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Release : 1918
File : 32 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105082939138


Christian Ethics Or The True Moral Manhood And Life Of Duty

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Genre : Christian ethics
Author : D. S. Gregory
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Release : 1883
File : 364 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015026263023


Constructive Ethics A Review Of Modern Moral Philosophy In Its Three Stages Of Interpretation Criticism And Reconstruction

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Genre : Ethics
Author : William Leonard Courtney
Publisher :
Release : 1886
File : 346 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:HNMHBQ


Constructive Ethics

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Genre : Ethics
Author : William Leonard Courtney
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Release : 1895
File : 340 Pages
ISBN-13 : PRNC:32101066077064


The Vision Of New Clairvaux Or Ethical Reconstruction Through Combination Of Agriculture And Handicrft Under Conditions Which Exercise Emotion Sentiment And Imagination With Loyalty To A Supreme Ideal

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Author : Edward Pearson Pressey
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Release : 1909
File : 232 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:31951002316947E


The Dublin Review

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Release : 1942
File : 880 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105126613467


Why Four Gospels

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Genre : Bible
Author : Daniel Seely Gregory
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Release : 1876
File : 372 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:AH42VW


Why Four Gospels Or The Gospel For All The World

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Genre : Bible
Author : Daniel Seely Gregory
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Release : 1876
File : 362 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOMDLP:ajg9752:0001.001