O'Donnell Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality

Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-53926-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Columbia History of Urban Life

Edward T. O'Donnell's exploration of Henry George's life and times merges labor, ethnic, intellectual, and political history to illuminate the early labor movement in New York during the Gilded Age. George's accessible, forward-thinking ideas on democracy, equality, and freedom have tremendous value for contemporary debates.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Donnell, Edward

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: The Making of a Radical, 1839–1879
1. "To Be Something and Somebody in the World"
2. "Poverty Enslaves Men We Boast Are Political Sovereigns": Progress and Poverty and Henry George's Republicanism
Part II: The Emergence of "New Political Forces," 1880–1885
3. "New York Is an Immense City": The Empire City in the Early 1880s
4. "Radically and Essentially the Same": Irish-American Nationalism and American Labor
5. "Labor Built This Republic, Labor Shall Rule It"
Part III: The Great Upheaval, 1886–1887
6. "The Country Is Drifting into Danger"
7. "To Save Ourselves from Ruin"
8. "Your Party Will Go Into Pieces"
Epilogue
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Edward T. O'Donnell is associate professor of history at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the author of 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Irish American History and Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum, and he is the coauthor of Visions of America: A History of the United States. His work can be found at www.edwardtodonnell.com and www.inthepastlane.com.