About This Book
The author traces the evolution of political and religious liberty across the nineteenth century, surveying the impact of wartime centralization and subsequent peace on institutions, and assessing figures and movements such as Napoleonic authority, utilitarian and socialist reformers, abolitionists, transcendentalists, and evolutionists. Chapters consider how peace allowed social reforms—education, suffrage, and labor improvements—and how pulpit and platform clashed over public questions, while emancipation, press freedom, legal change, and local self-government are examined. An appendix addresses Sunday recreation. The treatment is analytical and historical, stressing practical reforms and notable gains in liberty rather than abstract theory.
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