Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920

Abstract

Part One. Jacksonian Era 1. Urban Threat Emerges: A Strategy Takes Shape 2. Tract Societies: Transmitting a Traditional Morality by Untraditional Means 3. Sunday School in the City: Patterned Order in a Disorderly Setting 4. Urban Moral Reform in the Early Republic: Some Concluding Reflections Part Two. 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: Emergence of the YMCA Part Three. Gilded Age: Urban Moral Control in a Turbulent Time 8. The Ragged Edge of Anarchy: 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: Charity Organization Movement 11. Urban Moral Awakening of the 1890s 12. Two Faces of Urban Moral Reform in the 1890s Part Four. Progressives and the City: Common Concerns, Divergent Strategies 13. Battling the Saloon and the Brothel: Great Coercive Crusades 14. One Last, Decisive Struggle: Symbolic Component of the Great Coercive Crusades 15. Positive Environmentalism: Ideological Underpinnings 16. Housing, Parks, and Playgrounds: Positive Environmentalism in Action 17. Civic Ideal and the Urban Moral Order 18. Civic Ideal Made Real: Moral Vision of the Progressive City Planners 19. Positive Environmentalism and the Urban Moral-Control Tradition: Contrasts and Continuities 20. Getting Right with Gesellschaft: Decay of the Urban Moral-Control Impulse in the 1920s and After Notes Index