Format:
Online-Ressource (432 p)
ISBN:
9780674931107
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 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 1890s -- 12. The Two Faces of Urban Moral Reform in the 1890s -- 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 1920s and After -- Notes -- Index.
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Description based upon print version of record
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""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""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""
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""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 1890s""; ""12. The Two Faces of Urban Moral Reform in the 1890s""; ""PART FOUR The Progressives and the City: Common Concerns, Divergent Strategies""
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""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""
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""20. Getting Right with Gesellschaft: The Decay of the Urban Moral-Control Impulse in the 1920s and After""""Notes""; ""Index""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674028623
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674931107
Additional Edition:
Print version Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920
Language:
English
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