Ape and essence : a novel / by Aldous Huxley

• Record Nr.: UNINA990004249670403321
• Autore: Huxley, Aldous <1894–1963>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : Chatto and Windus, 1949
• Descrizione fisica: 153 p. ; 18 cm
• Locazione: FLFBC
• Collocazione: P.3 BR.C.1702
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Urban masses and moral order in America, 1820-1920 [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Boyer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455444603321
• Autore: Boyer Paul S
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 1992, c1978
• ISBN: 0-674-02862-7
• Edizione: [1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (432 p. ) : 35 halftones 3 line illustrations
• Disciplina: 301.36/3/0973
• Soggetti: Urbanization - United States - History; Electronic books.; United States Moral conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part One. The Jacksonian Era 1. The Urban Threat Emerges: A Strategy Takes Shape 2. The Tract Societies: Transmitting a Traditional Morality by Untraditional Means 3. The Sunday School in the City: Patterned Order in a Disorderly Setting 4. Urban Moral Reform in the Early Republic: Some Concluding Reflections Part Two. The Mid-Century ; Decades: Years of Frustration and Innovation 5. Heightened Concern, Varied Responses 6. Narrowing the Problem: Slum Dwellers and Street Urchins 7. Young Men and the City: The Emergence of the YMCA Part Three. The Gilded Age: Urban Moral Control in a Turbulent Time 8. "The Ragged Edge of Anarchy": The Emotional Context of Urban Social Control in the Gilded Age 9. American Protestantism and the Moral Challenge of the Industrial City 10. Building Character among the Urban Poor: The Charity Organization Movement 11. The Urban Moral Awakening of the 1890's 12. The Two Faces of Urban Moral Reform in the 1890's Part Four. The Progressives and the City: Common Concerns, Divergent Strategies 13. Battling the Saloon and the Brothel: The Great Coercive Crusades 14. One Last, Decisive Struggle: The Symbolic Component of the Great Coercive Crusades 15. Positive Environmentalism: The Ideological Underpinnings 16. Housing, Parks, and Playgrounds: Positive Environmentalism in Action 17. The Civic Ideal and the Urban Moral Order 18. The Civic Ideal Made Real: The Moral Vision of the Progressive City Planners 19. Positive Environmentalism and the Urban Moral-Control Tradition: Contrasts and Continuities 20. Getting Right with Gesellschaft: The Decay of the Urban Moral-Control Impulse in the 1920's and After Notes Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Explores the links between the urban reforms of the Progressive era and the long efforts of prior generations to tame the cities. Boyer integrates the ideologies of urban crusades with an examination of the careers and mentalities of a group of vigorous activists.