Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920 /

Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920 / / Paul Boyer.

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 ge...

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Boyer, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©1992
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • PART One. The Jacksonian Era
  • 1. The Urban Threat Emerges: A Strategy Takes Shape
  • 2. The Tract Societies: Transmitting a Traditional Morality by Untraditional Means
  • 3. The Sunday School in the City: Patterned Order in a Disorderly Setting
  • 4. Urban Moral Reform in the Early Republic: Some Concluding Reflections
  • PART Two. The Mid-Century Decades
  • 5. Heightened Concern, Varied Responses
  • 6. Narrowing the Problem: Slum Dwellers and Street Urchins
  • 7. Young Men and the City: The Emergence of the YMCA
  • PART Three. The Gilded Age
  • 8. The Ragged Edge of Anarchy": The Emotional Context of Urban Social Control in the Gilded Age
  • 9. American Protestantism and the Moral Challenge of xiv the Industrial City
  • 10. Building Character among the Urban Poor: The Charity Organization Movement
  • 11. The Urban Moral Awakening of the 1890s
  • 12. The Two Faces of Urban Moral Reform in the 1890s
  • PART Four. The Progressives and the City
  • 13. Battling the Saloon and the Brothel: The Great Coercive Crusades
  • 14. One Last, Decisive Struggle: The Symbolic Component of the Great Coercive Crusades
  • 15. Positive Environmentalism: The Ideological Underpinnings
  • 16. Housing, Parks, and Playgrounds: Positive Environmentalism in Action
  • 17. The Civic Ideal and the Urban Moral Order
  • 18. The Civic Ideal Made Real: The Moral Vision of the Progressive City Planners
  • 19. Positive Environmentalism and the Urban Moral-Control Tradition: Contrasts and Continuities
  • 20. Getting Right with Gesellschaft: The Decay of the Urban Moral-Control Impulse in the 1920s and After
  • Notes
  • Index

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