Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920

Name: Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920
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ISBN: 9780674931107

ISBN-10: 0674931106

ISBN-13: 9780674931107

Edition: 2nd 1978

Authors: Paul Boyer

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For over a century, dark visions of moral collapse and social disintegration in American cities spurred an anxious middle class to search for ways to restore order. In this important book, Paul Boyer explores the links between the urban reforms of the Progressive era and the long efforts of prior generations to tame the cities. He integrates the ideologies of urban crusades with an examination of the careers and the mentalities of a group of vigorous activists, including Lyman Beecher; the pioneers of the tract societies and Sunday schools; Charles Loring Brace of the Children's Aid Society; Josephine Shaw Lowell of the Charity Organization movement; the father of American playgrounds,…

Book details

List price: $52.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1978
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.37" wide x 9.25" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English




The Jacksonian Era



The Urban Threat Emerges: A Strategy Takes Shape



The Tract Societies: Transmitting a Traditional Morality by Untraditional Means



The Sunday School in the City: Patterned Order in a Disorderly Setting



Urban Moral Reform in the Early Republic: Some Concluding Reflections



The Mid-Century Decades: Years of Frustration and Innovation



Heightened Concern, Varied Responses



Narrowing the Problem: Slum Dwellers and Street Urchins



Young Men and the City: The Emergence of the YMCA



The Gilded Age: Urban Moral Control in a Turbulent Time



"The Ragged Edge of Anarchy": The Emotional Contextof Urban Social Control in the Gilded Age



American Protestantism and the Moral Challenge ofthe Industrial City



Building Character among the Urban Poor: TheCharity Organization Movement



The Urban Moral Awakening of the 1890s



The Two Faces of Urban Moral Reform in the 1890s



The Progressives and the City:Common Concerns, Divergent Strategies



Battling the Saloon and the Brothel: The Great CoerciveCrusades



One Last, Decisive Struggle: The Symbolic Componentof the Great Coercive Crusades



Positive Environmentalism: The Ideological Underpinnings



Housing, Parks, and Playgrounds: PositiveEnvironmentalism in Action



The Civic Ideal and the Urban Moral Order



The Civic Ideal Made Real: The Moral Vision of theProgressive City Planners



Positive Environmentalism and the Urban Moral-ControlTradition: Contrasts and Continuities



Getting Right with Gesellschaft: The Decay of the UrbanMoral-Control Impulse in the 1920s and After


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