Urban masses and moral order in America, 1820-1920 / / Paul Boyer

• Autore: Boyer Paul S
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 1992, c1978
• Edizione: 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 387 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 301.36/3/0973
• Soggetto topico: Urbanization - United States - History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Moral conditions
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Urban masses and moral order in America, 1820-1920
• ISBN: 0-674-26231-X; 0-674-02862-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808818703321
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