Paths of resistance : tradition and dignity in industrializing Missouri / David Thelen

Thelen, David P. (David Paul)

ISBN 10: 0195036670 / ISBN 13: 9780195036671

Edité par New York : Oxford University Press, 1986

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Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; x, 321 pages ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-310) and index. Contents; The Integration of Life in the Old Order -- Traditional Values and the Old Order -- The Land, the Rivers, and the People -- The Traditional Unity of Life and Work -- Family, Community, and the Variations of Culture -- Politics and Government -- Creation of the New Order -- The Engine of Growth -- Expanding the Market -- The Developers of Agriculture -- The New Insecurities -- The Invisible Hand -- The New Tools -- The New Competitors -- The New Authorities and Secularism -- Primitive Resistance to the New Order -- The Law, Outlaws, and Railroads -- The Civil War and the Crisis of Law and Authority -- The Battle over Railroad Bonds -- Jesse James, America's Classic Social Bandit -- The Great Strike of 1877 and Ownership of Law -- Communities, Economic Development, and Vigilantes -- The Bald Knobbers of the 1880s -- Race and Class War in the Bootheel -- The Cultural War -- Discipline and Self-Discipline -- Economic and Military Compulsions -- The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Children -- The Democratic Culture of Escape and Ragtime -- Mutual Aid -- The Protections of Church, Race, and Language -- Immigrant Cultures and Mutual Aid -- Segregation, Racial Control, and Mutual Aid -- White Protestants and the Crises of Conduct and Control -- The Fraternal and Cooperative Ethic of Mutual Aid -- The Search for Security in the New Workplaces -- The Economic Organization of the New Order -- The Organization of Business -- The Organization of the Professions -- The Organization of Labor -- Political Resistance in the New Order. Traditional Resistance, Populism, and the Limits of Politics -- Traditional Resistance and the Limits of Politics -- Populism and the Limits of Politics -- The Consumer Revolt and the Grass-Roots Origins of the Missouri Idea -- The Consumer Revolt -- Bribery and the Local Origins of the Missouri Idea -- The Missouri Idea and State Politics -- The Folk Administration and the Flowering of the Missouri Idea -- The Changing Context of Popular Control -- The Decline of the Missouri Idea and the Rise of Regulation -- The Problem of Cutting Distance: Structure -- The Problem of Cutting Distance: Participation -- Winning, Losing, and Democracy. Subjects; 1865-1950. Economic history. Politics and government. Social conditions. Industries Missouri History. 3 Kg.

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• Titre: Paths of resistance : tradition and dignity in industrializing Missouri / David Thelen
• Éditeur: New York : Oxford University Press
• Date de parution: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0195036670
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780195036671
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First Edition.
• Poids: 3 kilogrammes

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Synopsis

The years between 1865 and 1920 were eventful ones for the sake of Missouri. It was not only the time of Jesse James, Scott Joplin, and Mark Twain, of progressive governors Joseph Folk and Herbert Hadley, of the first general strike in St. Louis and some especially vicious vigilante activity, it was also the time when Missouri, like many other states, was being transformed by the tides of industrialism and economic growth. This social history examines the social and economic forces that resisted economic development in Missouri. Here, Thelen explores the various ways that people attempted to maintain their values and dignity in the face of overwhelming new economic, cultural, and political pressures, and analyzes the grassroots patterns that emerged in response to rapid social change. Thelen, who is one of the leading historians of the Progressive period in America, contends that people found their strength not in class solidarity or other Marxist responses but in what he calls "the resistance of folk memories", which allowed them to call upon the best elements of their collective past to help them cope with the new situation.

Revue de presse

This is a fine study...a book to read and contend with. (American Historical Review)