Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality : : Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age /

Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality : : Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age / / Edward O'Donnell.

America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839-1897) published a radical critiqu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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O'Donnell, Edward,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Columbia History of Urban Life
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 23 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • PART I. The Making of a Radical, 1839-1879
  • 1. "To Be Something and Somebody in the World"
  • 2. "Poverty Enslaves Men We Boast Are Political Sovereigns": Progress and Poverty and Henry George's Republicanism
  • PART II. The Emergence of "New Political Forces," 1880-1885
  • 3. "New York Is an Immense City": The Empire City in the Early 1880s
  • 4. "Radically and Essentially the Same": Irish American Nationalism and American Labor
  • 5. "Labor Built This Republic, Labor Shall Rule It"
  • PART III. The Great Upheaval, 1886-1887
  • 6. "The Country Is Drifting into Danger"
  • 7. "To Save Ourselves from Ruin"
  • 8. "Your Party Will Go Into Pieces"
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index

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