Benevolent Barons

Author : Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476620299

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Benevolent Barons by Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr. Pdf

American business has always had deep roots in community. For over a century, the country looked to philanthropic industrialists to finance hospitals, parks, libraries, civic programs, community welfare and disaster aid. Worker-centered capitalists saw the workplace as an extension of the community and poured millions into schools, job training and adult education. Often criticized as welfare capitalism, this system was unique in the world. Lesser known capitalists like Peter Cooper and George Westinghouse led the movement in the mid– to late 1800s. Westinghouse, in particular, focused on good wages and benefits. Robber barons like George Pullman and Andrew Carnegie would later succeed in corrupting the higher benefits of worker-centered capitalism. This is the story of those accomplished Americans who sought to balance the accumulation of wealth with communal responsibility.

Author : Adam Weishaupt
Publisher : Magus Books
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Voices of the Movement by Adam Weishaupt Pdf

The Movement is a new, meritocratic, grassroots force that seeks to topple the privileged elite.The Movement is a new, meritocratic, grassroots force that seeks to topple the privileged elite. What is the problem with contemporary capitalism? Simple: the capitalist elite. Without them, and with a much wider and more equitable distribution of capital, capitalism could be reformed and become an authentic force for good. We call this new and improved form of capitalism "social", "public" or "meritocratic" capitalism. It's time to get politically engaged, to get radical, to get real, to get mad about what the elite have done to the world. This book contains a detailed debate concerning the issue of "basic income" - the proposed right of everyone to be given a living wage no matter their circumstances and whether they are working or not. The two contribitors to the debate are members of The Movement and are just like you. Both sides of the debate are provided. Make up your own mind as to who's right.

Author : Peter Garside,Karen Elisabeth O'Brien
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199574803

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English and British Fiction, 1750-1820 by Peter Garside,Karen Elisabeth O'Brien Pdf

This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.

Author : Edward Vallance
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405527774

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A Radical History Of Britain by Edward Vallance Pdf

From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a thousand years of British history. In this fascinating study, Edward Vallance traces a national tendency towards revolution, irreverence and reform wherever it surfaces and in all its variety. He unveils the British people who fought and died for religious freedom, universal suffrage, justice and liberty - and shows why, now more than ever, their heroic achievements must be celebrated. Beginning with Magna Carta, Vallance subjects the touchstones of British radicalism to rigorous scrutiny. He evokes the figureheads of radical action, real and mythic - Robin Hood and Captain Swing, Wat Tyler, Ned Ludd, Thomas Paine and Emmeline Pankhurst - and the popular movements that bore them. Lollards and Levellers, Diggers, Ranters and Chartists, each has its membership, principles and objectives revealed.

Author : Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476633343

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The Ohio Presidents by Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr. Pdf

Ohio sent eight presidents to the White House--one Whig and seven Republicans--from 1841 to 1923: William Harrison, U.S. Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Taft and Warren Harding. Collectively their social policies and beliefs formed a unified philosophy and legacy. Ohio republicanism--an alliance of Christianity, populism, nationalism, industrialism and conservative economics--dominated politics across America from 1860 to 1930. Initially several factions in search of a party, it morphed from the anti-slavery Whig Party of Abraham Lincoln and swallowed up a group of single-issue parties, including the Abolition and Free Soil parties, under a national banner. The ghost of Ohio republicanism can still be seen today.

Author : Leilah Danielson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812291773

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American Gandhi by Leilah Danielson Pdf

When Abraham Johannes Muste died in 1967, newspapers throughout the world referred to him as the "American Gandhi." Best known for his role in the labor movement of the 1930s and his leadership of the peace movement in the postwar era, Muste was one of the most charismatic figures of the American left in his time. Had he written the story of his life, it would also have been the story of social and political struggles in the United States during the twentieth century. In American Gandhi, Leilah Danielson establishes Muste's distinctive activism as the work of a prophet and a pragmatist. Muste warned that the revolutionary dogmatism of the Communist Party would prove a dead end, understood the moral significance of racial equality, argued early in the Cold War that American pacifists should not pick a side, and presaged the spiritual alienation of the New Left from the liberal establishment. At the same time, Muste was committed to grounding theory in practice and the individual in community. His open, pragmatic approach fostered some of the most creative and remarkable innovations in progressive thought and practice in the twentieth century, including the adaptation of Gandhian nonviolence for American concerns and conditions. A biography of Muste's evolving political and religious views, American Gandhi also charts the rise and fall of American progressivism over the course of the twentieth century and offers the possibility of its renewal in the twenty-first.

Author : William Appleman Williams
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844678334

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The Contours of American History by William Appleman Williams Pdf

William Appleman Williams was the American history profession’s greatest critic of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back into British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was in effect a grand compromise, with expansion abroad containing class and race tensions at home. Coming as it did before the political explosions of the 1960s, Williams’s message was a deeply heretical one, and yet the Modern Library ultimately chose Contours as one of the best 100 nonfiction books of the 20th Century. This fiftieth anniversary edition will introduce this magisterial work to a new readership, with a new introduction by Greg Grandin, one of today’s leading historians of US foreign policy.

Author : William R. Huber
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476686929

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George Westinghouse by William R. Huber Pdf

While most know Thomas Edison for his invention of the light bulb, his counterpart, George Westinghouse, is too often overlooked. Westinghouse, however, became known as one of the most prolific inventors and businessmen of the Industrial Revolution. This biography reveals the man whose teachers suspected was mentally disabled and who quit college after one semester, yet founded more than 60 different companies employing 50,000 people, and received 361 U.S. patents. He later fought the "Battle of the Currents" (AC vs. DC) with Thomas Edison and won. Westinghouse, with his engineers, provided power and light for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. They harnessed the massive power of Niagara Falls and sent it over wires to light Buffalo and eventually the Northeast. His electric engines powered trains, and his air brakes stopped them. His scientific contributions forever changed the world.

Author : Quentin R. Skrabec
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476625645

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Aluminum in America by Quentin R. Skrabec Pdf

The history of aluminum: metallurgy, engineering, global business and politics—and the advance of civilization itself. The earth’s most abundant metal, aluminum remained largely inaccessible until after the Industrial Revolution. A precious commodity in 1850s, it later became a strategic resource: while steel won World War I, aluminum won World War II. A generation later, it would make space travel possible and the 1972 Pioneer spacecraft would carry a message from mankind to extraterrestrial life, engraved on an aluminum plate. Today aluminum, along with oil, is the natural resource driving geopolitics, and China has taken the lead in manufacture.

Author : Garry Carnegie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135665708

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Pastoral Accounting in Colonial Australia by Garry Carnegie Pdf

First Published in 1997. Set in colonial Australia, this explanatory, investigative study examines the dimensions of accounting information prepared for pastoral industry engagement in the Western District of Victoria during 1836-1900 and the local, time-specific environmental factors which shaped these dimensions. Based on examinations of surviving business records, the study provides evidence of the structure and usage of pastoral accounting information in an unregulated financial reporting environment. As an interpretive historical study, it attempts to provide explanations of the accounting practices observed.

Author : Ganesh Sitaraman,Anne Alstott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108487641

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Politics, Policy, and Public Options by Ganesh Sitaraman,Anne Alstott Pdf

This volume is the first interdisciplinary collection to assess public options as a single category. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : James Axler
Publisher : Gold Eagle
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460375815

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Terminal White by James Axler Pdf

ENDURING STRUGGLE The Cerberus rebels remain vigilant, defending mankind's sovereignty against the alien forces conspiring to gain control of the planet. Now a dark and deadly intelligence plots to eradicate what it means to be human: free will. SNOW BLIND In the northern wilderness, behind an artificial curtain of winter, the legacy of the deposed god kings lives on. An experimental testing ground—where computers have replaced independent choice—is turning citizens into docile, obedient sheep. The brainchild of a dedicated Magistrate of the old order, Terminal White promises to achieve the subjugation of the human race. As the Cerberus warriors infiltrate and get trapped in this mechanized web, humanity's only salvation may be lost in a blinding white doom.

Author : Henry W. Berger
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461703563

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A William Appleman Williams Reader by Henry W. Berger Pdf

William Appleman Williams, who died in 1990, was arguably the most influential and controversial historian of his generation. His revisionist writings, especially in American diplomatic history, forced historians and others to abandon old clichés and confront disturbing questions about America's behavior in the world. Williams defined America's social, moral, constitutional, and economic development in uncompromising, iconoclastic, and original terms. He saw history as "a way of learning;" and applied the principle brilliantly in books and essays which have altered our vision of the American past and present. In this rich collection, Henry Berger has drawn from Williams's most important writings—including "The Tragedy of American Diplomacy," "The Contours of American History," and "The Roots of the Modern American Empire" to present his key arguments. There are twenty-one selections in all, from books, essays, and articles, including two never before published. Mr. Berger has added notes to the selections and an enlightening introduction which explores Williams's career and ideas. This is an exceptionally valuable book.

Author : John Whitney Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0521223555

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The Cambridge History of Japan by John Whitney Hall Pdf

Volume 4 of The Cambridge History of Japan examines the turbulent period from 1550 to 1800.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10532077

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Punch by Anonim Pdf