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James Pearce is fresh out of college and has been at home for a month, doing nothing but sleeping, eating and anticipating the 12month Nigerian National Youth Service (NYSC). During the service year James meets Theresa who is engaged to be married but unsure and tormented by her engagement. James is obsessed with her and ruthlessly tries to make her his.

From its earliest days, the United States has provided fertile ground for reform movements to flourish. In this volume, twelve eminent historians assess religious and secular reform in America from the eighteenth century to the present day. The essays offer a mix of general overviews and specific case studies, addressing such topics as radical religion in New England, leisure in antebellum America, Sabbatarianism, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and Evangelicalism, social reform, and the U.S. welfare state. Suitable for students, the essays, each based on original research, will also be of interest to researchers and academics working in this area, as well as to all those with an interest in the history of religious and secular reform in America.