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Author : Jeffrey A. Johnson
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440837203
V . 1. Social and political life -- v. 2. Cultural and religious life
Author : Jeffrey A. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216137443
Presenting a detailed look at the individuals, themes, and moments that shaped this important Progressive Era in American history, this valuable reference spans 25 years of reform and provides multidisciplinary insights into the period. During the Progressive Era, influential thinkers and activists made efforts to improve U.S. society through reforms, both legislative and social, on issues of the day such as working conditions of laborers, business monopolies, political corruption, and vast concentrations of wealth in the hands of a few. Many Progressives hoped for and tirelessly worked toward a day when all Americans could take full advantage of the economic and social opportunities promised by U.S. society. This two-volume work traces the issues, events, and individuals of the Progressive Era from approximately 1893 to 1920. The entries and primary sources in this set are grouped thematically and cover a broad range of topics regarding reform and innovation across the period, with special attention paid to important topics of race, class, and gender reform and reformers. The volumes are helpfully organized under five categories: work and economic life; social and political life; cultural and religious life; science, literature, and the arts; and sports and popular culture.
Author : Elizabeth Sanders
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226734774
Offering a revision of the understanding of the rise of the American regulatory state in the late 19th century, this book argues that politically mobilised farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control.
Author : Jeffrey A. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1440847525
Author : Carl E. Van Horn,Herbert A. Schaffner
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015059566508
The first comprehensive analysis of work and the workforce in the United States, from the Industrial Revolution to the era of globalization. This comprehensive two-volume reference book is the first to analyze the central role of work and the workforce in U.S. life from the Industrial Revolution through today's information economy. Drawing on a variety of disciplines--economics, public policy, law, human and civil rights, cultural studies, and organizational psychology--its 256 entries examine key events, concepts, institutions, and individuals in labor history. Entries also tackle tough contemporary questions that reflect the conflicts inherent in capitalism. What is the impact of work on families and communities? On minority and immigrant populations? How shall we respond to changing work roles and the growing influence of the transnational corporation? Work in America describes and evaluates attempts to address social and class issues--affirmative action, occupational health and safety, corporate management science, and trade unionism and organized labor--and offers the kind of comprehensive understanding needed to discover workable solutions. 256 A-Z entries on topics ranging from Amazon.com to income gaps and wages An impressive array of expert contributors representing labor history, labor economics, labor law, welfare and social policy, human resource management, women's history, media studies, political science, workforce development, and employment policy Extensive historiography of U.S. labor and industrial relations End-of-entry bibliographies of references for further research
Author : Gerardo P. Sicat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philippines
ISBN : UOM:39015062472181
This paper is concerned with the broader canvas of economic reforms in the Philippines viewed from the framework of political economy. The first part provides a brief discussion of the rationale for economic reforms. The second part presents a tableau of economic policies in perspective over a long-term perspective covering years before political independence.
Author : Walter Machray Daniels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Presidents
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038777715
Author : Heather R. White
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469624129
With a focus on mainline Protestants and gay rights activists in the twentieth century, Heather R. White challenges the usual picture of perennial adversaries with a new narrative about America's religious and sexual past. White argues that today's antigay Christian traditions originated in the 1920s when a group of liberal Protestants began to incorporate psychiatry and psychotherapy into Christian teaching. A new therapeutic orthodoxy, influenced by modern medicine, celebrated heterosexuality as God-given and advocated a compassionate "cure" for homosexuality. White traces the unanticipated consequences as the therapeutic model, gaining popularity after World War II, spurred mainline church leaders to take a critical stance toward rampant antihomosexual discrimination. By the 1960s, a vanguard of clergy began to advocate for homosexual rights. White highlights the continued importance of this religious support to the consolidating gay and lesbian movement. However, the ultimate irony of the therapeutic orthodoxy's legacy was its adoption, beginning in the 1970s, by the Christian Right, which embraced it as an age-old tradition to which Americans should return. On a broader level, White challenges the assumed secularization narrative in LGBT progress by recovering the forgotten history of liberal Protestants' role on both sides of the debates over orthodoxy and sexual identity.
Author : Harry L. Watson,Jane Dailey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226300825
"Building the American Republic tells the story of United States with remarkable grace and skill, its fast moving narrative making the nation's struggles and accomplishments new and compelling. Weaving together stories of abroad range of Americans. Volume 1 starts at sea and ends on the field. Beginning with the earliest Americans and the arrival of strangers on the eastern shore, it then moves through colonial society to the fight for independence and the construction of a federal republic. Vol 2 opens as America struggles to regain its footing, reeling from a presidential assassination and facing massive economic growth, rapid demographic change, and combustive politics.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Ian Tyrrell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691162010
Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. Looking at various organizations such as the Young Men's Christian Association and the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, Ian Tyrrell describes the influence that the export of American values had back home, and explores the methods and networks used by reformers to fashion a global and nonterritorial empire. He follows the transnational American response to internal pressures, the European colonies, and dynamic changes in global society. Examining the cultural context of American expansionism from the 1870s to the 1920s, Tyrrell provides a new interpretation of Christian and evangelical missionary work, and he addresses America's use of "soft power." He describes evangelical reform's influence on American colonial and diplomatic policy, emphasizes the limits of that impact, and documents the often idiosyncratic personal histories, aspirations, and cultural heritage of moral reformers such as Margaret and Mary Leitch, Louis Klopsch, Clara Barton, and Ida Wells. The book illustrates that moral reform influenced the United States as much as it did the colonial and quasi-colonial peoples Americans came in contact with, and shaped the architecture of American dealings with the larger world of empires through to the era of Woodrow Wilson. Investigating the wide-reaching and diverse influence of evangelical reform movements, Reforming the World establishes how transnational organizing played a vital role in America's political and economic expansion.
Author : Neal Simon
Publisher : Realclear Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1645430642
"The alternate domination of one faction over another, natural to party dissension...is itself a frightful despotism." -- George Washington George Washington's nightmare has been realized. Despite his warning about the negative effects of party loyalties, the U.S. government has become paralyzed by partisanship, allowing national challenges to go unaddressed. As an independent candidate for U.S. Senate in 2018, Neal Simon witnessed the destructive nature of modern American politics. He experienced firsthand the perverse incentives that push candidates and lawmakers to ideological extremes. He watched as party leaders resisted pragmatic solutions to our nation's problems. He saw politicians prioritize loyalty to their party bases over progress for the American people. In this comprehensive analysis of United States politics, Simon shows how degradations in party primaries, campaign finances, and election rules have caused American self-government to collapse into gridlock and divisiveness. However, the American promise is so much greater. As the first U.S. president noted in his famed address, "The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government." Capitalizing on personal insight derived from Simon's political campaign along with extensive research, Contract to Unite America provides specific, practical solutions for an improved government and a better tomorrow.
Author : Ariane Liazos
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231549370
Most American cities are now administered by appointed city managers and governed by councils chosen in nonpartisan, at-large elections. In the early twentieth century, many urban reformers claimed these structures would make city government more responsive to the popular will. But on the whole, the effects of these reforms have been to make citizens less likely to vote in local elections and local governments less representative of their constituents. How and why did this happen? Ariane Liazos examines the urban reform movement that swept through the country in the early twentieth century and its unintended consequences. Reformers hoped to make cities simultaneously more efficient and more democratic, broadening the scope of what local government should do for residents while also reconsidering how citizens should participate in their governance. However, they increasingly focused on efficiency, appealing to business groups and compromising to avoid controversial and divisive topics, including the voting rights of African Americans and women. Liazos weaves together wide-ranging nationwide analysis with in-depth case studies. She offers nuanced accounts of reform in five cities; details the activities of the National Municipal League, made up of prominent national reformers and political scientists; and analyzes quantitative data on changes in the structures of government in over three hundred cities. Reforming the City is an important study for American history and political development, with powerful insights into the relationships between scholarship and reform and between the structures of city government and urban democracy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Commercial law
ISBN : UCAL:C3211146
Author : C.A. CUTTER; F LEYPOLDT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555032791