Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xiii
4. Illustrations xv
5. PART One. The Jacksonian Era
6. 1. The Urban Threat Emerges: A Strategy Takes Shape 3
7. 2. The Tract Societies: Transmitting a Traditional Morality by Untraditional Means 22
8. 3. The Sunday School in the City: Patterned Order in a Disorderly Setting 34
9. 4. Urban Moral Reform in the Early Republic: Some Concluding Reflections 54
10. PART Two. The Mid-Century Decades
11. 5. Heightened Concern, Varied Responses 67
12. 6. Narrowing the Problem: Slum Dwellers and Street Urchins 85
13. 7. Young Men and the City: The Emergence of the YMCA 108
14. PART Three. The Gilded Age
15. 8. The Ragged Edge of Anarchy": The Emotional Context of Urban Social Control in the Gilded Age 123
16. 9. American Protestantism and the Moral Challenge of xiv the Industrial City 132
17. 10. Building Character among the Urban Poor: The Charity Organization Movement 143
18. 11. The Urban Moral Awakening of the 1890s 162
19. 12. The Two Faces of Urban Moral Reform in the 1890s 175
20. PART Four. The Progressives and the City
21. 13. Battling the Saloon and the Brothel: The Great Coercive Crusades 191
22. 14. One Last, Decisive Struggle: The Symbolic Component of the Great Coercive Crusades 205
23. 15. Positive Environmentalism: The Ideological Underpinnings 220
24. 16. Housing, Parks, and Playgrounds: Positive Environmentalism in Action 233
25. 17. The Civic Ideal and the Urban Moral Order 252
26. 18. The Civic Ideal Made Real: The Moral Vision of the Progressive City Planners 261
27. 19. Positive Environmentalism and the Urban Moral-Control Tradition: Contrasts and Continuities 277
28. 20. Getting Right with Gesellschaft: The Decay of the Urban Moral-Control Impulse in the 1920s and After 284
29. Notes 295
30. Index 371