J. Larry Hood

Visions of Zion

Christianity, Modernization and the American Pursuit of Liberty Progessivism in Rural Nelson and Washington Counties Kentucky

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Three decades after the Civil War-amidst a resurgent patriotic fervor, a new Christian Awakening and an enveloping modernization promising heretofore unimagined heights of prosperity and well-being-a new generation of Americans in rural Nelson and Washington Counties, Kentucky, were experiencing what Lincoln in their fathers' war had promised: a new birth of freedom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: UPA
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780761830658
• ISBN-10: 0761830650
• Artikelnr.: 21794207

Autorenporträt

J. Larry Hood

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 At the Turn of the Century
Chapter 3 The Promised Land: Nelson and Washington Counties, 1784-1900
Chapter 4 Just Beyond the Far Horizon: Progress, Prosperity, and Power,
1900-1914
Chapter 5 By Faith We Shall See It: Strengthening the Individual, the
Family, the Community and Nation, 1900-1914
Chapter 6 Marching to Zion: Progressivism's Further Advance, 1914-1917
Chapter 7 Onward Christian Soldiers: Reformation of the World through War,
1917-1918
Chapter 8 Progressivism Triumphant: The Long Awaited Day, 1917-1918
Chapter 9 No Road Home: Turning the Progressive Crusade Around, 1918-1921
Chapter 10 And the Ages Roll, A Summing Up
Chapter 11 Postscript
Chapter 12 Appendix: Nelson and Washington Counties as a Case Study in
Progressivism
Chapter 13 Maps
Chapter 14 Endnotes
Chapter 15 Bibliography
Chapter 16 Index