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Author | : Jonathan Daniel Wells |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2011-12-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807138541 |
Download The Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green provide a series of provocative essays reflecting innovative, original research on professional and commercial interests in the nineteenth-century South, a place often seen as being composed of just two classes -- planters and slaves. Rather, an active middle class, made up of men and women devoted to the cultural and economic modernization of Dixie, worked with each other -- and occasionally their northern counterparts -- to bring reforms to the region. With a balance of established and younger authors, of antebellum and postbellum analyses, and of narrative and quantitative methodologies, these essays offer new ways to think about politics, society, gender, and culture during this exciting era of southern history. The contributors show that many like-minded southerners sought to create a "New South" with a society similar to that of the North. They supported the creation of public schools and an end to dueling, but less progressive reform was also endorsed, such as building factories using slave labor rather than white wage earners. The Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century significantly influences thought on the social structure of the South, the centrality of class in history, and the events prior to and after the Civil War.
Author | : Leland Ware |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2018-10-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1498564704 |
Download A Century of Segregation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the history of racial segregation in America and many of the heroic battles that were waged against the system. From the 1930s to the 1960s court challenges were won and laws were enacted that killed Jim Crow. However, despite considerable advances, substantial barriers to racial equality persist.
Author | : David B. TYACK |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0674044525 |
Download Tinkering toward Utopia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For over a century, Americans have translated their cultural anxieties and hopes into dramatic demands for educational reform. Although policy talk has sounded a millennial tone, the actual reforms have been gradual and incremental. Tinkering toward Utopia documents the dynamic tension between Americans' faith in education as a panacea and the moderate pace of change in educational practices. In this book, David Tyack and Larry Cuban explore some basic questions about the nature of educational reform. Why have Americans come to believe that schooling has regressed? Have educational reforms occurred in cycles, and if so, why? Why has it been so difficult to change the basic institutional patterns of schooling? What actually happened when reformers tried to reinvent schooling? Tyack and Cuban argue that the ahistorical nature of most current reform proposals magnifies defects and understates the difficulty of changing the system. Policy talk has alternated between lamentation and overconfidence. The authors suggest that reformers today need to focus on ways to help teachers improve instruction from the inside out instead of decreeing change by remote control, and that reformers must also keep in mind the democratic purposes that guide public education.
Author | : Sarah Wadsworth |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781558495418 |
Download In the Company of Books Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tracing the segmentation of the literary marketplace in 19th century America, this book analyses the implications of the subdivided literary field for readers, writers, and literature itself.
Author | : Diane Ravitch |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2001-07-31 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0743203267 |
Download Left Back Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this authoritative history of American education reforms in this century, a distinguished scholar makes a compelling case that our schools fail when they consistently ignore their central purpose--teaching knowledge.
Author | : Wayne Allyn Root |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1621572323 |
Download The Murder of the Middle Class Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The great American middle class is dying—and not from natural causes. The Murder of the Middle Class exposes the crime and indicts the conspirators, from the Obama administration to their willing accomplices in big business, big media, and big unions—naming names and pointing out their misdeeds. Bestselling author Wayne Allyn Root doesn't just prove the crime and profile the suspects, he provides bold solutions to save American capitalism, the middle class, the GOP . . . and YOU! This middle class warrior gives you the game plan and the weapons to fight back.
Author | : Katherine Leonard Turner |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520277589 |
Download How the Other Half Ate Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs, families, neighborhoods, and the tools, utilities, and size of their kitchens—along with their cultural heritage. How the Other Half Ate is a deep exploration by historian and lecturer Katherine Turner that delivers an unprecedented and thoroughly researched study of the changing food landscape in American working-class families from industrialization through the 1950s. Relevant to readers across a range of disciplines—history, economics, sociology, urban studies, women’s studies, and food studies—this work fills an important gap in historical literature by illustrating how families experienced food and cooking during the so-called age of abundance. Turner delivers an engaging portrait that shows how America’s working class, in a multitude of ways, has shaped the foods we eat today.
Author | : L. Young |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2002-12-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230598811 |
Download Middle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawing on expressive and material culture, Young shows that money was not enough to make the genteel middle class. It required exquisite self-control and the right cultural capital to perform ritual etiquette and present oneself confidently, yet modestly. She argues that genteel culture was not merely derivative, but a re-working of aristocratic standards in the context of the middle class necessity to work. Visible throughout the English-speaking world in the 1780s -1830s and onward, genteel culture reveals continuities often obscured by studies based entirely on national frameworks.
Author | : Paul Le Blanc |
Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2017-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1608466698 |
Download A Short History of the U.S. Working Class Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“His aim is to make the history of labor in the U.S. more accessible to students and the general reader. He succeeds” (Booklist). In a blend of economic, social, and political history, Paul Le Blanc shows how important labor issues have been, and continue to be, in the forging of our nation. Within a broad analytical framework, he highlights issues of class, gender, race, and ethnicity, and includes the views of key figures of United States labor. The result is a thought-provoking look at centuries of American history from a perspective that is too often ignored or forgotten. “An excellent overview, enhanced by a valuable glossary.” —Elaine Bernard, director of the Harvard Trade Union Program
Author | : Bart Landry |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2018-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813593980 |
Download The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Although past research on the African American community has focused primarily on issues of discrimination, segregation, and other forms of deprivation, there has always been some recognition of class diversity within the black population. The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century is a significant contribution to the continuing study of black middle class life. Sociologist Bart Landry examines the changes that have occurred since the publication of his now-classic The New Black Middle Class in the late 1980s, and conducts a comprehensive examination of black middle class American life in the early decades of the twenty-first century. Landry investigates the educational and occupational attainment, income and wealth, methods of child-rearing, community-building priorities, and residential settlement patterns of this growing yet still-understudied segment of the U.S. population.