Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Problems of Moral Community
6. 1. Original Themes of Voluntary Moralism: The Anglo-American Reformation of Manners 15
7. 2. Gothic Mystery and the Birth of the Asylum: The Cultural Construction of Deviance in Early-Nineteenth-Century America 41
8. 3. The World's "Dirty Work" and the Wages That "Sweeten" It: Labor's "Extrinsic Rewards" in Antebellum Society 59
9. 4. Deviance, Dominance, and the Construction of Handedness in Turn-of-the-Century Anglo-America 81
10. Race and the Problem of Slavery
11. 5. Black Abolitionists and the Origins of Civil Disobedience 103
12. 6. "The Right to Possess All the Faculties That God Has Given": Possessive Individualism, Slave Women, and Abolitionist Thought 123
13. 7. Worrying about the Civil War 145
14. 8. Caste, Class, and Equal Citizenship 167
15. Religion and Moral Community
16. 9. Jewish Prayers for the U.S. Government: A Study in the Liturgy of Politics and the Politics of Liturgy 201
17. 10. Interfaith Families in Victorian America 223
18. 11. Prophetic Ministry and the Military Chaplaincy during the Vietnam Era 245
19. Rewarding Moral Boundaries in Modern America
20. 12. Listen, My Children: Modes and Functions of Poetry Reading in American Schools, 1880-1950 261
21. 13. Talking about Sex: Early-Twentieth-Century Radicals and Moral Confessions 283
22. 14. "What If History Was a Gambler?" 309
23. Afterword. David Brion Davis: A Biographical Appreciation 331
24. Contributors 341
25. Index 345