During the first half of the nineteenth century the wooded hills and the valleys of western New York State were swept by fires of the spirit. The fervent religiosity of the region caused historians to call it the ‘burned-over district.’
Daftar Isi
Preface
List of Maps BOOK I. ORIGINS: 1800–1825
Chapter 1. The Great Revival
Chapter 2. Yankee Benevolence
Chapter 3. Premonitions BOOK II. ENVIRONMENT: 1825–1850
Chapter 4. Canal Days
Chapter 5. Social Patterns BOOK III. PORTENTS: 1825–1831
Chapter 6. The Martyr
Chapter 7. Yorker Benevolence
Chapter 8. The Prophet
Chapter 9. The Evangelist BOOK IV. GENESIS OF ULTRAISM: 1826–1837
Chapter 10. New Measures
Chapter 11. New Men
Chapter 12. New Ideas BOOK V. HARVEST: 1830–1845
Chapter 13. A Moral Reformation
Chapter 14. Perfect Sanctification
Chapter 15. Schism
Chapter 16. The Pattern of Dispersing Ultraism BOOK VI. AFTERMATH: 1840–1850
Chapter 17. The End of the World
Chapter 18. Utopia Now
Chapter 19. World without End
Chapter 20. The Passing EraAppendix. Notes on Maps
Index
Tentang Penulis
The late Whitney R. Cross was Assistant Professor of History at West Virginia University.
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