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Education For Revolution; Pamphlets And The Politicization Of French Society, 1787-1789, James Harvey Ojala
Education For Revolution; Pamphlets And The Politicization Of French Society, 1787-1789, James Harvey Ojala
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
Historians, long in the habit of looking upon the French Revolution as the "beginning" of the modern world, have concentrated their attention on the spectacular events of 1789 and later and have neglected in comparison the history of the years immediately preceding the Revolution. This imbalance between our knowledge of the Revolution and what we know of the events that led up to it has distorted our perspectives of the period. Consequently, the discontinuities of the era have been overemphasized while the importance of the continuities have been inaccurately minimized. In addition, despite the fact that the French Revolution is …
Social Reform In The Burned-Over District: Rochester, New York As A Test Case, 1830-1854, James Logan Mcelroy
Social Reform In The Burned-Over District: Rochester, New York As A Test Case, 1830-1854, James Logan Mcelroy
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
In the decades following 1820, a variety of social reform crusades swept western New York. Although none of these crusades was peculiar to New York, this region somehow seemed more receptive to them than any other section of the country. The region's responsiveness to reform movements and religious enthusiasm earned it both the unique title of “Burned-over District" and a prominent place in historians’ accounts of antebellum reform. While some scholars have remained content to describe the activities and ideas of the reformers, others have probed the social foundations of the movements in an attempt to discover what motivated people …