In the mid-nineteenth century, American and British governments marched with great fanfare into the marketplace of knowledge and publishing. British royal commissions of inquiry, inspectorates, and parliamentary committees conducted famous social inquiries into child labor, poverty, housing, and factories. The American federal government studied Indian tribes, explored the West, and investigated the condition of the South during and after the Civil War.
Performing, printing, and then circulating these studies, government established an economy of exchange with its diverse...
In the mid-nineteenth century, American and British governments marched with great fanfare into the marketplace of knowledge and publishing. Britis...
In 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt identified -four essential human freedoms.- Three of these--freedom from fear, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion--had long been understood as defining principles of liberalism. Roosevelt's fourth freedom--freedom from want--was not. Indeed, classic liberals had argued that the only way to guarantee this freedom would be through an illiberal redistribution of wealth. In Freedom from Want, Kathleen G. Donohue describes how, between the 1880s and the 1940s, American intellectuals transformed classical liberalism into its modern American...
In 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt identified -four essential human freedoms.- Three of these--freedom from fear, freedom of speech, and freedom of...
Because it provided the dominant framework for -development- of poor, postcolonial countries, modernization theory ranks among the most important constructs of twentieth-century social science. In Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America Nils Gilman offers the first intellectual history of a movement that has had far-reaching and often unintended consequences.
After a survey of the theory's origins and its role in forming America's postwar sense of global mission, Gilman offers a close analysis of the people who did the most to promote it in the United...
Because it provided the dominant framework for -development- of poor, postcolonial countries, modernization theory ranks among the most important c...
In fiction, drama, poems, and pamphlets, nineteenth-century reformers told the familiar tale of the decent young man who fell victim to demon rum: Robbed of his manhood by his first drink, he slid inevitably into an abyss of despair and depravity. In its discounting of the importance of free will, argues Elaine Frantz Parsons, this story led to increased emphasis on environmental influences as root causes of drunkenness, poverty, and moral corruption--thus inadvertently opening the door to state intervention in the form of Prohibition.
Parsons also identifies the emergence of a...
In fiction, drama, poems, and pamphlets, nineteenth-century reformers told the familiar tale of the decent young man who fell victim to demon rum: ...
