Main entry:

Boyer, Paul S.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1978.

Description:

xvi, 387 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. 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 II. 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 III. The Gilded Age: Urban Moral Control in a Turbulent Time -- 8. "The Ragged Edge of Anarchy": The Emotional Context of Urban Social Control in the Gilded Age -- 8. 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 IV. 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.

Summary:

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

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0674931092
9780674931091

Subject:

Urbanization United States History.
Urbanisation États-Unis Histoire.
Moral conditions.
Urbanization.
Stadtentwicklung
Urbanisatie.
Sociale controle.
United States Moral conditions.
EE.UU. Condiciones morales.
États-Unis Conditions morales.
United States.
USA

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 63679
Call No.: PO15658; ID:85-B8407
Status: Available