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Urban masses and moral order in America, 1820-1920 / Paul Boyer.

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Includes chapters on moral reform, the YMCA, Sunday Schools, and parks and playgrounds.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Boyer, Paul S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1978.
Subjects:
Urbanization > United States > History.
United States > Moral conditions.
Moral conditions.
Urbanization.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""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: Years of Frustration and Innovation""; ""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: Urban Moral Control in a Turbulent Time""; ""8. “The Ragged Edge of Anarchyâ€?: The Emotional Context of Urban Social Control in the Gilded Age""; ""9. American Protestantism and the Moral Challenge of 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: Common Concerns, Divergent Strategies""
  • ""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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