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Title: The Ferment of Reform, 1830-1860 (The American History Series) by John Hope Franklin, Clifford Stephen Griffin ISBN: 0-88295-738-4 Publisher: Harlan Davidson Pub. Date: June, 1968 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent introduction to antebellum reform historiography.
Comment: In this work, Griffin provides an excellent and brief summary of the major issues debated by historians surrounding antebellum reform. The first third of the book is spent in an insightful discussion surrounding the nature and definition of reform. He explores some of the problems encountered when historians portray reformers as the reformers portrayed themselves. Ultimately he suggests that reform be analyzed as a part of human nature and not be limited to the study of particular groups. The middle third of this work discusses the varieties of reform. Griffin examines the methods and goals of the reformers. While finding some common ground in their ultimate goals, Griffin concludes that no single theme emerges from the study of antebellum reform. Variety and diversity are its nature. Griffin concludes his work by exploring the successes and failures of reform. Accusing historians of finding in antebellum reform what they wanted to find, Griffin declares that true understanding of the reformers will be gained only if we do not care how well the reformers served their subjects and the nation. While this work is now outdated, Griffin's insights remain valuable. His calls for more synthesis in this field have, for the most part, gone unheeded. In a field of with little historiography, I recommend this book as an excellent introduction to the historical scholarship (through 1967) of antebellum reform.
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Title: The Boston Tea Party by Benjamin Woods Labaree ISBN: 0930350057 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: December, 1979 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield by Thomas H. O'Connor ISBN: 1555533833 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Hub: Boston Past and Present by Thomas H. O'Connor ISBN: 1555535445 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Boston: A Topographical History, Third Enlarged Edition by Walter Muir Whitehill, Lawrence W. Kennedy ISBN: 0674002687 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: 05 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The American Mind in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (The American History Series) by Irving H. Bartlett ISBN: 0882958097 Publisher: Harlan Davidson Pub. Date: January, 1982 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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