Ideas, ideologies, and social movements : the United States experience since 1800 / edited by Peter A. Coclanis and Stuart Bruchey.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-222) and index.

Responsibility, convention, and role of ideas in history / Thomas L. Haskell -- Democracy in the United States: from the revolution to the civil war / Lacy K. Ford Jr. -- The Enlightenment and evangelical intellectual life in the nineteenth century / Mark A. Noll -- Ideas behind the women's movement: beginning with Wollstonecraft / Ruth Nadelhaft -- Ideas of the American labor movement, 1880-1950 / Gary Gerstle -- From child labor to child work: changing cultural conceptions of children's economic roles, 1870s-1930s / Viviana A. Zelizer -- The rights of the elderly as a social movement in the United States: the story till 1980 / Eleanor Bruchey -- Why become a citizen?: the strategic ideas of immigrants in the social movement of naturalization / Reed Ueda -- The international human rights movement and the human rights idea / Louis Henkin -- The role of ideas in the African-American civil rights movement: the problem of the color-blind Constitution / Hugh Davis Graham -- Sentiments, ideas, and animals: rights talk and animal protection / James M. Jasper -- Fear and redemption in the environment movement / Donald Worster -- The future of the global environment / Giulio Pontecorvo.