Ideas, Ideologies, and Social Movements: The United States Experience Since 1800Peter A. Coclanis, Stuart Weems Bruchey This volume uncovers the role of ideas and ideologies in some of the most important social movements in US history. The book examines attempts to bring about or to thwart social or institutional change - from political democratization and feminism to animal rights and civil rights. |
Contents
Haskell | 1 |
The Enlightenment and Evangelical Intellectual Life | 42 |
The International Human Rights Movement | 124 |
The Future of the Global Environment | 173 |
Notes | 187 |
Contributors | 223 |
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