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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811448303321

Autore

Jordan John M

Titolo

Machine-age ideology : social engineering and American liberalism, 1911-1939 / / by John M. Jordan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c1994

ISBN

979-88-908649-4-9

0-8078-7603-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/5/0973

Soggetti

Engineering - Social aspects - United States - History

United States Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART 1 PREDECESSORS, 1880-1910 -- 1. Origins of American Rational Reform -- PART 2 DEFINITIONS, 1911-1918 -- 2. Engineers and Efficiency -- 3. Structuring a New Republic -- PART 3 IMPLEMENTATION AND REDEFINITION, 1918-1934 -- 4. War and Reconstruction -- 5. The Great Engineer -- 6. Scientific Philanthropy, Philanthropic Science -- 7. Social Engineering Projects: The 1920s -- 8. Roads Not Taken -- 9. Social Engineering in the Depression, I: Outside the New Deal -- 10. Social Engineering in the Depression, II: Inside the New Deal -- PART 4 RECONSIDERATION AND RETREAT, 1934-1939 -- 11. Reconsiderations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.