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8. The Ragged Edge of Anarchy": The Emotional Context of Urban Social Control in the Gilded Age

© 2021 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

© 2021 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

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  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
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