SOC 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Young Europe, Mary Wollstonecraft, Popular Education
31 Dec 2018
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Even in the 19th century, class-based struggles for economic justice were not the only basis for social movements. There were movements whose goals or driving force was focused on other values that were only indirectly related to economic justice. Throughout the early nineteenth century, communitarianism, tem-perance, and various dietary and lifestyle movements attracted hundreds of thousands of adherents in both. Religious awakening, revitalization, and proliferation were major themes, as were anticlericalism and freethinking. Anti slavery or abolitionist movements were often closely linked to religion but were autonomous from any particular religious organizations. Popular education was the object of struggle, with early success in america. The nationalist discourse of the (northern) union before and after the civil war-including even "manifest destiny which was not altogether different from the nationalist discourse of giuseppe mazzini and young europe* or of giuseppe garibaldi*. Nativism was recurrent throughout the nine-teenth century.
