1975 Proceedings Sixty Sixth Annual Convention Of Rotary International

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Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism

Author : Brendan Goff
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674989795

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A new history of Rotary International shows how the organization reinforced capitalist values and cultural practices at home and tried to remake the world in the idealized image of Main Street America. Rotary International was born in Chicago in 1905. By the time World War II was over, the organization had made good on its promise to Ògirdle the globe.Ó Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism explores the meteoric rise of a local service club that brought missionary zeal to the spread of American-style economics and civic ideals. Brendan Goff traces RotaryÕs ideological roots to the business progressivism and cultural internationalism of the United States in the early twentieth century. The key idea was that community service was intrinsic to a capitalist way of life. The tone of Òservice above selfÓ was often religious, but, as Rotary looked abroad, it embraced Woodrow WilsonÕs secular message of collective security and international cooperation: civic internationalism was the businessmanÕs version of the Christian imperial civilizing mission, performed outside the state apparatus. The target of this mission was both domestic and global. The Rotarian, the organizationÕs publication, encouraged Americans to see the world as friendly to Main Street values, and Rotary worked with US corporations to export those values. Case studies of Rotary activities in Tokyo and Havana show the group paving the way for encroachments of US powerÑeconomic, political, and culturalÑduring the interwar years. RotaryÕs evangelism on behalf of market-friendly philanthropy and volunteerism reflected a genuine belief in peacemaking through the worldÕs Òparliament of businessmen.Ó But, as Goff makes clear, Rotary also reinforced American power and interests, demonstrating the tension at the core of US-led internationalism.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1480 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498447

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Proceedings ... Annual Convention of Rotary International

Author : Rotary International. Convention
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Business
ISBN : UCAL:B3011073

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Proceedings ... Annual Convention of Rotary International by Rotary International. Convention Pdf