Christopher Hood
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198297659
- eISBN:
- 9780191599484
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198297653.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
In the four chapters of Part II, public management ideas that loosely correspond to each of the four polar world views identified by cultural theory are discussed. Here, the cultural‐theory framework ...
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In the four chapters of Part II, public management ideas that loosely correspond to each of the four polar world views identified by cultural theory are discussed. Here, the cultural‐theory framework is mixed with a historical perspective to survey recurring approaches to public management that can be loosely characterized as hierarchist (this chapter), individualist (Ch. 5), egalitarian (Ch. 6), and fatalist (Ch. 7). Looks briefly and selectively at four classic hierarchist approaches to public management. Two of them (Confucian public management in classical China and the cameralist tradition of early modern Europe) rarely receive a mention in conventional public‐management books—but those older traditions merit attention from present‐day students of public management, and not just for pietist or antiquarian reasons, for they show some of the different contexts in which hierarchist ideas have flourished, and their fate can help assess the strengths and weaknesses of doing public management the hierarchist way. The other two hierarchist approaches discussed are Progressivism and Fabianism.Less
In the four chapters of Part II, public management ideas that loosely correspond to each of the four polar world views identified by cultural theory are discussed. Here, the cultural‐theory framework is mixed with a historical perspective to survey recurring approaches to public management that can be loosely characterized as hierarchist (this chapter), individualist (Ch. 5), egalitarian (Ch. 6), and fatalist (Ch. 7). Looks briefly and selectively at four classic hierarchist approaches to public management. Two of them (Confucian public management in classical China and the cameralist tradition of early modern Europe) rarely receive a mention in conventional public‐management books—but those older traditions merit attention from present‐day students of public management, and not just for pietist or antiquarian reasons, for they show some of the different contexts in which hierarchist ideas have flourished, and their fate can help assess the strengths and weaknesses of doing public management the hierarchist way. The other two hierarchist approaches discussed are Progressivism and Fabianism.
Lawrence A. Scaff
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691147796
- eISBN:
- 9781400836710
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691147796.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Population and Demography
This chapter examines the origins and direction of Max Weber's thinking as he set his sights on America. It first considers Weber's enthusiasm as a traveler, citing his trips to various countries as ...
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This chapter examines the origins and direction of Max Weber's thinking as he set his sights on America. It first considers Weber's enthusiasm as a traveler, citing his trips to various countries as well as the impact of these journeys on his spirits and his historical imagination. It then discusses one reason why Weber's travel to the United States in 1904: it came just as Weber had turned his attention to the problems of his most famous work—the theme of the relationships among economic action, economic development, and the moral order of society, explored in his two-part essay The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism. The chapter explains why the journey became a touchstone for a number of Weber's later reflections on issues on the agenda of American Progressivism, from immigration and race to education, religion, democracy, political economy, and capitalism.Less
This chapter examines the origins and direction of Max Weber's thinking as he set his sights on America. It first considers Weber's enthusiasm as a traveler, citing his trips to various countries as well as the impact of these journeys on his spirits and his historical imagination. It then discusses one reason why Weber's travel to the United States in 1904: it came just as Weber had turned his attention to the problems of his most famous work—the theme of the relationships among economic action, economic development, and the moral order of society, explored in his two-part essay The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism. The chapter explains why the journey became a touchstone for a number of Weber's later reflections on issues on the agenda of American Progressivism, from immigration and race to education, religion, democracy, political economy, and capitalism.
Azar Gat
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198207153
- eISBN:
- 9780191677519
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207153.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Military History, History of Ideas
This chapter examines the connection of fascist modernism and the visions of machine warfare by examining two other pronounced modernist ideologies: American Progressivism and Marxism. This chapter ...
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This chapter examines the connection of fascist modernism and the visions of machine warfare by examining two other pronounced modernist ideologies: American Progressivism and Marxism. This chapter discusses Charles A. Lindberg who became the greatest living symbol of the conquest for air which sparked the flames of the fascist expression in the Nazi regime. The present chapter seeks to suggest a more general explanation for the Lindbergh affair and his presumed influence in the insignificant yet influential emergence of fascism in America. The equivalents of the concept of fascism in the form of Populism, Progressivism, American ‘nativism’ and technological modernism are discussed in this chapter.Less
This chapter examines the connection of fascist modernism and the visions of machine warfare by examining two other pronounced modernist ideologies: American Progressivism and Marxism. This chapter discusses Charles A. Lindberg who became the greatest living symbol of the conquest for air which sparked the flames of the fascist expression in the Nazi regime. The present chapter seeks to suggest a more general explanation for the Lindbergh affair and his presumed influence in the insignificant yet influential emergence of fascism in America. The equivalents of the concept of fascism in the form of Populism, Progressivism, American ‘nativism’ and technological modernism are discussed in this chapter.
Benjamin Heber Johnson
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300115505
- eISBN:
- 9780300227765
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300115505.001.0001
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Nature
This book is an exploration of the Progressive-era conservation movement, and its lasting effects on American culture, politics, and contemporary environmentalism. The turn of the twentieth century ...
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This book is an exploration of the Progressive-era conservation movement, and its lasting effects on American culture, politics, and contemporary environmentalism. The turn of the twentieth century caught America at a crossroads, shaking the dust from a bygone era and hurtling toward the promises of modernity. Factories, railroads, banks, and oil fields all reshaped the American landscape and people. In the gulf between growing wealth and the ills of an urbanizing nation, the spirit of Progressivism emerged. Promising a return to democracy and a check on concentrated wealth, Progressives confronted this changing relationship to the environment, not only in the countryside but also in dense industrial cities and leafy suburbs. Drawing on extensive work in urban history and Progressive politics, this book weaves together environmental history, material culture, and politics to reveal the successes and failures of the conservation movement and its lasting legacy. By following the efforts of a broad range of people and groups—women's clubs, labor advocates, architects, and politicians—the book shows how conservation embodied the ideals of Progressivism, ultimately becoming one of its most important legacies.Less
This book is an exploration of the Progressive-era conservation movement, and its lasting effects on American culture, politics, and contemporary environmentalism. The turn of the twentieth century caught America at a crossroads, shaking the dust from a bygone era and hurtling toward the promises of modernity. Factories, railroads, banks, and oil fields all reshaped the American landscape and people. In the gulf between growing wealth and the ills of an urbanizing nation, the spirit of Progressivism emerged. Promising a return to democracy and a check on concentrated wealth, Progressives confronted this changing relationship to the environment, not only in the countryside but also in dense industrial cities and leafy suburbs. Drawing on extensive work in urban history and Progressive politics, this book weaves together environmental history, material culture, and politics to reveal the successes and failures of the conservation movement and its lasting legacy. By following the efforts of a broad range of people and groups—women's clubs, labor advocates, architects, and politicians—the book shows how conservation embodied the ideals of Progressivism, ultimately becoming one of its most important legacies.
Yehouda Shenhav
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199250004
- eISBN:
- 9780191697869
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199250004.003.0007
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies, Business History
This chapter extends this analysis to the Progressive era. During this period the severity of industrial unrest was recognized, and engineers established themselves as arbiters of industrial ...
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This chapter extends this analysis to the Progressive era. During this period the severity of industrial unrest was recognized, and engineers established themselves as arbiters of industrial conflicts. They perceived themselves as gatekeepers situated at the junction between politics and economics and offered management systems — to manufacturers and the public at large — as a solution to political instability. The chapter shows how system discourse gradually replaced the explicit ideological discourse, the process resulting in the depoliticization of the labour struggle.Less
This chapter extends this analysis to the Progressive era. During this period the severity of industrial unrest was recognized, and engineers established themselves as arbiters of industrial conflicts. They perceived themselves as gatekeepers situated at the junction between politics and economics and offered management systems — to manufacturers and the public at large — as a solution to political instability. The chapter shows how system discourse gradually replaced the explicit ideological discourse, the process resulting in the depoliticization of the labour struggle.
Rebecca Tinio McKenna
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226417769
- eISBN:
- 9780226417936
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226417936.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
Through an exploration of a Daniel Burnham-designed colonial hill station in the mountains of northern Luzon called Baguio, this book examines the literal and figurative architecture of U.S. ...
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Through an exploration of a Daniel Burnham-designed colonial hill station in the mountains of northern Luzon called Baguio, this book examines the literal and figurative architecture of U.S. imperialism in the Philippines. Tracking the Pacific crossings of famed Progressives like Burnham and tracing the transformation of Philippine pastureland into American pastoral retreat, the book shows how colonial rule and subjects of rule were generated in the face of Philippine resistance, the contradictions of imperial ideology, and in place. Chapters examine subject and capital formation through acts of dispossession that underwrote the making of the colonial retreat in the first decades of the twentieth century. Collectively, they challenge the abstraction and seeming invisibility of the United States’ emergent market empire by excavating the formal aspects of American power and the labor of building it.Less
Through an exploration of a Daniel Burnham-designed colonial hill station in the mountains of northern Luzon called Baguio, this book examines the literal and figurative architecture of U.S. imperialism in the Philippines. Tracking the Pacific crossings of famed Progressives like Burnham and tracing the transformation of Philippine pastureland into American pastoral retreat, the book shows how colonial rule and subjects of rule were generated in the face of Philippine resistance, the contradictions of imperial ideology, and in place. Chapters examine subject and capital formation through acts of dispossession that underwrote the making of the colonial retreat in the first decades of the twentieth century. Collectively, they challenge the abstraction and seeming invisibility of the United States’ emergent market empire by excavating the formal aspects of American power and the labor of building it.
Merrill D. Peterson
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195096453
- eISBN:
- 9780199853939
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195096453.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
The chapter describes the events after the civil war and how the memory of Lincoln strengthened in the minds of the American nation. He became an object of study for his political thought and ...
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The chapter describes the events after the civil war and how the memory of Lincoln strengthened in the minds of the American nation. He became an object of study for his political thought and practice. This chapter discusses Ida M. Tarbell and her work called the Lincoln Series. She published “Lincoln's Lost Speech” which turned out to be a forgery. This chapter also describes Lincoln's twofold political legacy. The author also touches on “Lincoln's Prophecy” which also turned out to be a fake. The author also discusses Lincoln in relation to Progressivism, and the view of Lincoln in the eyes of the Negroes. This chapter also describes the commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of Lincoln's birth.Less
The chapter describes the events after the civil war and how the memory of Lincoln strengthened in the minds of the American nation. He became an object of study for his political thought and practice. This chapter discusses Ida M. Tarbell and her work called the Lincoln Series. She published “Lincoln's Lost Speech” which turned out to be a forgery. This chapter also describes Lincoln's twofold political legacy. The author also touches on “Lincoln's Prophecy” which also turned out to be a fake. The author also discusses Lincoln in relation to Progressivism, and the view of Lincoln in the eyes of the Negroes. This chapter also describes the commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of Lincoln's birth.
Jeffrey Burton Russell
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195334586
- eISBN:
- 9780199851423
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195334586.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Disenchantment grew greater in the nineteenth century, under the spell of alleged material Progress. Physicalism dominated elite circles and seeped down into popular assumptions. On the other hand, ...
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Disenchantment grew greater in the nineteenth century, under the spell of alleged material Progress. Physicalism dominated elite circles and seeped down into popular assumptions. On the other hand, various idealist philosophical systems and literary movements attacked physicalism from a variety of angles. For both sides, the idea of Progress through development was central. It was believed that humans are moving ahead to a better world here on earth rather than in heaven. The debate about physicalist Progress centered on the term “evolution”. One was asked to be for or against evolution or to believe or disbelieve in evolution. In the Christian tradition, the idea of Progress assumed that humanity progresses spiritually. By the nineteenth century, Progress meant that humanity progresses materially. Views of heaven, whether traditional, sentimental, or intellectual, were later challenged by the most important trend of the later nineteenth century, physicalist evolution.Less
Disenchantment grew greater in the nineteenth century, under the spell of alleged material Progress. Physicalism dominated elite circles and seeped down into popular assumptions. On the other hand, various idealist philosophical systems and literary movements attacked physicalism from a variety of angles. For both sides, the idea of Progress through development was central. It was believed that humans are moving ahead to a better world here on earth rather than in heaven. The debate about physicalist Progress centered on the term “evolution”. One was asked to be for or against evolution or to believe or disbelieve in evolution. In the Christian tradition, the idea of Progress assumed that humanity progresses spiritually. By the nineteenth century, Progress meant that humanity progresses materially. Views of heaven, whether traditional, sentimental, or intellectual, were later challenged by the most important trend of the later nineteenth century, physicalist evolution.
Stephen Skowronek, Stephen M Engel, and Bruce Ackerman (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300204841
- eISBN:
- 9780300225099
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300204841.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This book looks at how the Progressive Era redefined the playing field for conservatives and liberals alike. During the 1912 presidential campaign, Progressivism emerged as an alternative to what was ...
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This book looks at how the Progressive Era redefined the playing field for conservatives and liberals alike. During the 1912 presidential campaign, Progressivism emerged as an alternative to what was then considered an outmoded system of government. A century later, a new generation of conservatives criticizes Progressivism as having abandoned America's founding values and miring the government in institutional gridlock. This book examines a broad range of issues, including Progressives' interpretation of the Constitution, their expansion and redistribution of individual rights, and reforms meant to shift power from political parties to ordinary citizens.Less
This book looks at how the Progressive Era redefined the playing field for conservatives and liberals alike. During the 1912 presidential campaign, Progressivism emerged as an alternative to what was then considered an outmoded system of government. A century later, a new generation of conservatives criticizes Progressivism as having abandoned America's founding values and miring the government in institutional gridlock. This book examines a broad range of issues, including Progressives' interpretation of the Constitution, their expansion and redistribution of individual rights, and reforms meant to shift power from political parties to ordinary citizens.
Ashley Baggett
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496815217
- eISBN:
- 9781496815255
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496815217.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
After the South reversed intimate partner violence reform, the North did too. Progressivism emphasized reliance on experts, and science grew as a field during the early twentieth century. Biologists ...
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After the South reversed intimate partner violence reform, the North did too. Progressivism emphasized reliance on experts, and science grew as a field during the early twentieth century. Biologists warned against women’s growing rights, claiming family and the entire nation would suffer as a consequence. The field of psychology and social work also grew during the period. Social workers pushed for the creation of family courts, in which decisions of intimate partner violence would be decided. These new professions upheld conservative definitions of womanhood and pushed to uphold the family whatever the cost. This process effectively decriminalized abuseLess
After the South reversed intimate partner violence reform, the North did too. Progressivism emphasized reliance on experts, and science grew as a field during the early twentieth century. Biologists warned against women’s growing rights, claiming family and the entire nation would suffer as a consequence. The field of psychology and social work also grew during the period. Social workers pushed for the creation of family courts, in which decisions of intimate partner violence would be decided. These new professions upheld conservative definitions of womanhood and pushed to uphold the family whatever the cost. This process effectively decriminalized abuse
John Weber
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469625232
- eISBN:
- 9781469625256
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469625232.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter examines the ways in which the new farm elite sought to shape South Texas according to their interests. Newcomer farmers dismantled older political structures and established a strictly ...
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This chapter examines the ways in which the new farm elite sought to shape South Texas according to their interests. Newcomer farmers dismantled older political structures and established a strictly segregated social and political environment, culminating in efforts to immobilize the surplus labor pool within South Texas. Through their combined efforts, agricultural and political interests created the South Texas model of labor relations, whereby farming interests guaranteed themselves cheap and plentiful labor through a varied regime of labor controls and a reliance on continuous influxes of workers from Mexico. Through a complete overhaul of the political system and the establishment of rigid segregation, farming interests sought to impose labor controls on the working population that would guarantee an eternal oversupply of available labor.Less
This chapter examines the ways in which the new farm elite sought to shape South Texas according to their interests. Newcomer farmers dismantled older political structures and established a strictly segregated social and political environment, culminating in efforts to immobilize the surplus labor pool within South Texas. Through their combined efforts, agricultural and political interests created the South Texas model of labor relations, whereby farming interests guaranteed themselves cheap and plentiful labor through a varied regime of labor controls and a reliance on continuous influxes of workers from Mexico. Through a complete overhaul of the political system and the establishment of rigid segregation, farming interests sought to impose labor controls on the working population that would guarantee an eternal oversupply of available labor.
Johnathan O'Neill
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823251940
- eISBN:
- 9780823253012
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823251940.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
For decades scholars have argued that social Darwinism and laissez- faire ideology transfixed early twentieth-century American constitutionalism. This view has been considerably undermined by a wave ...
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For decades scholars have argued that social Darwinism and laissez- faire ideology transfixed early twentieth-century American constitutionalism. This view has been considerably undermined by a wave of revisionism which argues that conservatives of the so-called Lochner-era respected the law and the Constitution. This chapter builds on this revisionism by examining non-jurisprudential constitutional commentary among a small but notable group of intellectuals, officials, and scholars who responded to progressivism and socialism based on their self- understanding as constitutional conservatives. Frequently they measured the constitutional challenges of their time against those of the Civil War and Reconstruction era. At the center of this development was the National Association for Constitutional Government (NACG) and its journal, Constitutional Review, which ran from 1917 to 1929. The publication's circulation was never large, but NACG, the Review, and a few other like-minded public figures sustained a conservative constitutional position throughout the1920s.Less
For decades scholars have argued that social Darwinism and laissez- faire ideology transfixed early twentieth-century American constitutionalism. This view has been considerably undermined by a wave of revisionism which argues that conservatives of the so-called Lochner-era respected the law and the Constitution. This chapter builds on this revisionism by examining non-jurisprudential constitutional commentary among a small but notable group of intellectuals, officials, and scholars who responded to progressivism and socialism based on their self- understanding as constitutional conservatives. Frequently they measured the constitutional challenges of their time against those of the Civil War and Reconstruction era. At the center of this development was the National Association for Constitutional Government (NACG) and its journal, Constitutional Review, which ran from 1917 to 1929. The publication's circulation was never large, but NACG, the Review, and a few other like-minded public figures sustained a conservative constitutional position throughout the1920s.
Helena Chance
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781784993009
- eISBN:
- 9781526124043
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784993009.003.0001
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
This book presents a history of the factory gardens and parks movement in Britain and the United States, from its origins in the early Industrial Revolution, to its zenith in the years preceding the ...
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This book presents a history of the factory gardens and parks movement in Britain and the United States, from its origins in the early Industrial Revolution, to its zenith in the years preceding the Second World War and concludes with an overview of the evolution of corporate landscapes from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. Industrialists attempted to assuage the effects of mass production by embracing the historical, cultural and metaphorical meanings of gardens to refine corporate culture and to redefine industry as progressive and responsible. Industry contributed distinctively and significantly to gardening culture and to opportunities for outdoor recreation in the first half of the twentieth century. Analysing factories from the point of view of landscape has produced a significant new interpretation of factory design, society and culture, which draws out the meanings of time and space in the factory that are not related to the production line. The discussion draws on empirical evidence underpinned by sources from a broad disciplinary base, including areas of research within architectural, art, photographic, landscape and garden histories; cultural geography, social history, philosophy, gender studies and social science.Less
This book presents a history of the factory gardens and parks movement in Britain and the United States, from its origins in the early Industrial Revolution, to its zenith in the years preceding the Second World War and concludes with an overview of the evolution of corporate landscapes from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. Industrialists attempted to assuage the effects of mass production by embracing the historical, cultural and metaphorical meanings of gardens to refine corporate culture and to redefine industry as progressive and responsible. Industry contributed distinctively and significantly to gardening culture and to opportunities for outdoor recreation in the first half of the twentieth century. Analysing factories from the point of view of landscape has produced a significant new interpretation of factory design, society and culture, which draws out the meanings of time and space in the factory that are not related to the production line. The discussion draws on empirical evidence underpinned by sources from a broad disciplinary base, including areas of research within architectural, art, photographic, landscape and garden histories; cultural geography, social history, philosophy, gender studies and social science.
Catherine Parsons Smith
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520251397
- eISBN:
- 9780520933835
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520251397.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter examines the role of music in the Progressive movement, taking a look at the Temple Auditorium, which was founded by Clara Bradley and became one of the cornerstones of the Progressive ...
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This chapter examines the role of music in the Progressive movement, taking a look at the Temple Auditorium, which was founded by Clara Bradley and became one of the cornerstones of the Progressive movement. It then looks at the largest success of musical progressivism in Los Angeles, which occurred after political Progressivism disappeared in Southern California.Less
This chapter examines the role of music in the Progressive movement, taking a look at the Temple Auditorium, which was founded by Clara Bradley and became one of the cornerstones of the Progressive movement. It then looks at the largest success of musical progressivism in Los Angeles, which occurred after political Progressivism disappeared in Southern California.
Nathaniel Cadle
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781469618456
- eISBN:
- 9781469618470
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469618456.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This book examines conceptualizations of globalization that coalesced in American culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the intersection between late realism ...
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This book examines conceptualizations of globalization that coalesced in American culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the intersection between late realism and Progressivism. Citing Woodrow Wilson's concept of the United States as a mediating nation, which he articulated in his April 1915 speech, the book explores how some of the most articulate writers and intellectuals of the period—such as William Dean Howells, Henry James, Abraham Cahan, Knut Hamsun, Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, Louis Brandeis, and Randolph Bourne—explained and exploited America's growing global power. It demonstrates how realism emerged as a literary mode that represented the increasingly global currents of U.S. society and culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and how the modes of transnational circulation that preoccupy Wilson in his speech were exploited to help define or redefine the United States' role in the world.Less
This book examines conceptualizations of globalization that coalesced in American culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the intersection between late realism and Progressivism. Citing Woodrow Wilson's concept of the United States as a mediating nation, which he articulated in his April 1915 speech, the book explores how some of the most articulate writers and intellectuals of the period—such as William Dean Howells, Henry James, Abraham Cahan, Knut Hamsun, Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, Louis Brandeis, and Randolph Bourne—explained and exploited America's growing global power. It demonstrates how realism emerged as a literary mode that represented the increasingly global currents of U.S. society and culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and how the modes of transnational circulation that preoccupy Wilson in his speech were exploited to help define or redefine the United States' role in the world.
Nathaniel Cadle
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781469618456
- eISBN:
- 9781469618470
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469618456.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter explores the relationship between shifting notions of literary cosmopolitanism, emerging discourse about internationalism, and the concept of world-salvation. It looks at the efforts of ...
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This chapter explores the relationship between shifting notions of literary cosmopolitanism, emerging discourse about internationalism, and the concept of world-salvation. It looks at the efforts of intellectuals and elite literary figures to articulate the role of the state in an increasingly globalized society at the turn of the twentieth century. More specifically, it considers the literary use of cosmopolitanism, internationalism, and world-salvation within a wider social and political context, focusing on how these words were deployed by prominent intellectuals such as William James and W. E. B. Du Bois. It also discusses cosmopolitanism in relation to contemporaneous discussions of world literature. Finally, the chapter examines Progressivism in the United States as well as the political and social context in which late realism was embedded and sought to intervene.Less
This chapter explores the relationship between shifting notions of literary cosmopolitanism, emerging discourse about internationalism, and the concept of world-salvation. It looks at the efforts of intellectuals and elite literary figures to articulate the role of the state in an increasingly globalized society at the turn of the twentieth century. More specifically, it considers the literary use of cosmopolitanism, internationalism, and world-salvation within a wider social and political context, focusing on how these words were deployed by prominent intellectuals such as William James and W. E. B. Du Bois. It also discusses cosmopolitanism in relation to contemporaneous discussions of world literature. Finally, the chapter examines Progressivism in the United States as well as the political and social context in which late realism was embedded and sought to intervene.
John Higham
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300088182
- eISBN:
- 9780300129823
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300088182.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter explores the problem of assimilation as a new feature of the Progressive years in America and considers ethnic relations from a national cultural context. It first looks at the ...
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This chapter explores the problem of assimilation as a new feature of the Progressive years in America and considers ethnic relations from a national cultural context. It first looks at the repressive waves of nativism and racism from 1890 to 1924 before turning to the role of religious ideas in Progressive politics. It then discusses how the Progressive era brought into the open the challenge that a divided heritage and an ambiguous, dualistic national identity posed to the American people. It also examines the problem of race and Progressivism, how the localization of power in nineteenth-century America allowed innumerable separations to flourish within a matrix of national unity, and how a broad movement for purification offered a means to overcome the contradictions in American life and strengthen the hegemony of the white Protestant culture.Less
This chapter explores the problem of assimilation as a new feature of the Progressive years in America and considers ethnic relations from a national cultural context. It first looks at the repressive waves of nativism and racism from 1890 to 1924 before turning to the role of religious ideas in Progressive politics. It then discusses how the Progressive era brought into the open the challenge that a divided heritage and an ambiguous, dualistic national identity posed to the American people. It also examines the problem of race and Progressivism, how the localization of power in nineteenth-century America allowed innumerable separations to flourish within a matrix of national unity, and how a broad movement for purification offered a means to overcome the contradictions in American life and strengthen the hegemony of the white Protestant culture.
Michael G. Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801452727
- eISBN:
- 9781501701801
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801452727.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter looks at the new postliberal theological consensus and ecumenists' newly developing theology of the nation and international life. The new postliberal theological consensus stressed the ...
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This chapter looks at the new postliberal theological consensus and ecumenists' newly developing theology of the nation and international life. The new postliberal theological consensus stressed the importance of the Universal Church, appealed anew to the Bible, appropriated older understandings of sin, and critiqued Progressivist views of history. In specialized “sections,” delegates applied these theological emphases as a kind of filter through which to evaluate the contribution of big-name contributors to the conference, such as Alfred Zimmern, the Marquess of Lothian, Phillip Kerr (future British ambassador to the United States), and John Foster Dulles. In their characteristically dialectical style, Oxford delegates critiqued simplistic equations between liberal internationalism and Christianity, and likewise denounced nationalism and racism as idolatry and sin.Less
This chapter looks at the new postliberal theological consensus and ecumenists' newly developing theology of the nation and international life. The new postliberal theological consensus stressed the importance of the Universal Church, appealed anew to the Bible, appropriated older understandings of sin, and critiqued Progressivist views of history. In specialized “sections,” delegates applied these theological emphases as a kind of filter through which to evaluate the contribution of big-name contributors to the conference, such as Alfred Zimmern, the Marquess of Lothian, Phillip Kerr (future British ambassador to the United States), and John Foster Dulles. In their characteristically dialectical style, Oxford delegates critiqued simplistic equations between liberal internationalism and Christianity, and likewise denounced nationalism and racism as idolatry and sin.
Domenic Vitiello
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801450112
- eISBN:
- 9780801469749
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801450112.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter examines the institutional complexes through which the Sellers family and their allies influenced regional economic development and pre-Progressive urbanism during and after the Civil ...
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This chapter examines the institutional complexes through which the Sellers family and their allies influenced regional economic development and pre-Progressive urbanism during and after the Civil War. Historians argue that the Progressive Era began in the 1890s and continued in subsequent decades. However, the social and government reforms promoted by the various institutions that the Sellers and their colleagues led beginning in the 1860s indicate that Progressivism has a deeper history. This chapter considers the educational–industrial complex that the Sellers and their networks promoted and that enabled nineteenth-century Philadelphia to become a leader in manufacturing and allied science. It also explores how the Sellers's postwar institutional pursuits amplified their influence over economic development within and well beyond Philadelphia. It shows that the intellectual and institutional roots of the new sciences of urbanism were based largely in the economic development aims of postwar industrial capital.Less
This chapter examines the institutional complexes through which the Sellers family and their allies influenced regional economic development and pre-Progressive urbanism during and after the Civil War. Historians argue that the Progressive Era began in the 1890s and continued in subsequent decades. However, the social and government reforms promoted by the various institutions that the Sellers and their colleagues led beginning in the 1860s indicate that Progressivism has a deeper history. This chapter considers the educational–industrial complex that the Sellers and their networks promoted and that enabled nineteenth-century Philadelphia to become a leader in manufacturing and allied science. It also explores how the Sellers's postwar institutional pursuits amplified their influence over economic development within and well beyond Philadelphia. It shows that the intellectual and institutional roots of the new sciences of urbanism were based largely in the economic development aims of postwar industrial capital.
Benjamin Heber Johnson
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300115505
- eISBN:
- 9780300227765
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300115505.003.0001
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Nature
This introductory chapter talks about a more comprehensive and balanced portrayal of conservation, exploring how it maintained race and class hierarchies, and how the movement laid the basis for real ...
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This introductory chapter talks about a more comprehensive and balanced portrayal of conservation, exploring how it maintained race and class hierarchies, and how the movement laid the basis for real and lasting environmental improvements. Several spectators realized that conservation had a lot to do with Progressivism, as environmental measures were among the most important legacies of the Progressive era. The chapter thus introduces three goals for conducting this research. First, it aims to offer a more expansive synthesis of conservationist thinking and doing, one that stresses the movement's complexity, heterogeneity, ambition, and breadth. Second, it means to show how deeply tied this movement was to the larger course of Progressivism. And finally, it argues for the relevance of conservation for contemporary environmental reform.Less
This introductory chapter talks about a more comprehensive and balanced portrayal of conservation, exploring how it maintained race and class hierarchies, and how the movement laid the basis for real and lasting environmental improvements. Several spectators realized that conservation had a lot to do with Progressivism, as environmental measures were among the most important legacies of the Progressive era. The chapter thus introduces three goals for conducting this research. First, it aims to offer a more expansive synthesis of conservationist thinking and doing, one that stresses the movement's complexity, heterogeneity, ambition, and breadth. Second, it means to show how deeply tied this movement was to the larger course of Progressivism. And finally, it argues for the relevance of conservation for contemporary environmental reform.
