Amer Progress
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The Pricing Of Progress
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Author : Eli Cook
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-25
The Pricing Of Progress written by Eli Cook and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-25 with History categories.
How did Americans come to quantify their society’s well-being in units of money? In our GDP-run world, prices are the measure of not only goods and commodities but our environment, communities, nation, even self-worth. Eli Cook shows how, and why, we moderns lost sight of earlier social and moral metrics that did not put a price on everyday life.
The Idea Of Progress In America 1815 1860
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Author : Arthur Alphonse Ekirch
language : en
Publisher: Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, 511
Release Date : 1944
The Idea Of Progress In America 1815 1860 written by Arthur Alphonse Ekirch and has been published by Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, 511 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with History categories.
Portrays the American faith in progress from 1815-1860 and analyzes the idea of progress in terms of the interests and groups which it served.
Advertising Progress
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Author : Pamela Walker Laird
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2020-01-15
Advertising Progress written by Pamela Walker Laird and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-15 with History categories.
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Originally published in 1998. Drawing on both documentary and pictorial evidence, Pamela Walker Laird explores the modernization of American advertising to 1920. She links its rise and transformation to changes that affected American society and business alike, including the rise of professional specialization and the communications revolution that new technologies made possible. Laird finds a fundamental shift in the kinds of people who created advertisements and their relationships to the firms that advertised. Advertising evolved from the work of informing customers (telling people what manufacturers had to sell) to creating consumers (persuading people that they needed to buy). Through this story, Laird shows how and why—in the intense competitions for both markets and cultural authority—the creators of advertisements laid claim to "progress" and used it to legitimate their places in American business and culture.
Historic Progress And American Democracy
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Author : John Lothrop Motley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
Historic Progress And American Democracy written by John Lothrop Motley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with Political Science categories.
The Power Of Progress
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Author : John Podesta
language : en
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date : 2008
The Power Of Progress written by John Podesta and has been published by Three Rivers Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Progressivism (United States politics) categories.
The former chief of staff for Bill Clinton identifies five of America's biggest challenges and offers an approach, based on progressive values, on how to deal with them, reshape America in the wake of the Bush presidency, and restore America's global leadership role.
The Poverty Of Progress
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Author : E. Bradford Burns
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1983-12-28
The Poverty Of Progress written by E. Bradford Burns and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-12-28 with Business & Economics categories.
From the Preface by Bradford Burns:If this essay succeeds, it will open an interpretive window providing a different perspective of Latin America's recent past. At first glance, the view might seem to be of the conventional landscape of modernization, but I hope a steady gaze will reveal it to be far vaster and more complex. For one thing, rather than enumerating the benefits accruing to Latin America as modernization became a dominant feature of the social, economic, and political life of the region, this essay regards the imposition of modernization as the catalyst of a devastating cultural struggle and as a barrier to Latin America's development. Clearly if a window to the past is opened by this essay, then so too is a new door to controversy. After most of the nations of Latin America gained political independence, their leaders rapidly accelerated trends more leisurely under way since the closing decades of the eighteenth century: the importation of technology and ideas with their accompanying values from Western Europe north of the Pyrenees and the full entrance into the world's capitalistic marketplace. Such trends shaped those new nations more profoundly than their advocates probably had realized possible. Their promoters moved forward steadfastly within the legacy of some basic institutions bequeathed by centuries of Iberian rule. That combination of hoary institutions with newer, non-Iberian technology, values, and ideas forged contemporary Latin America with its enigma of overwhelming poverty amid potential plenty. This essay emphasizes that the victory of the European oriented ruling elites over the Latin American folk with their community values resulted only after a long and violent struggle, which characterized most of the nineteenth century. Whatever advantages might have resulted from the success of the elites, the victory also fastened two dominant and interrelated characteristics on contemporary Latin America: a deepening dependency and the declining quality of life for the majority.
A Perilous Progress
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Author : Michael A. Bernstein
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2004-03-14
A Perilous Progress written by Michael A. Bernstein and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-14 with Business & Economics categories.
The economics profession in twentieth-century America began as a humble quest to understand the "wealth of nations." It grew into a profession of immense public prestige--and now suffers a strangely withered public purpose. Michael Bernstein portrays a profession that has ended up repudiating the state that nurtured it, ignoring distributive justice, and disproportionately privileging private desires in the study of economic life. Intellectual introversion has robbed it, he contends, of the very public influence it coveted and cultivated for so long. With wit and irony he examines how a community of experts now identified with uncritical celebration of ''free market'' virtues was itself shaped, dramatically so, by government and collective action. In arresting and provocative detail Bernstein describes economists' fitful efforts to sway a state apparatus where values and goals could seldom remain separate from means and technique, and how their vocation was ultimately humbled by government itself. Replete with novel research findings, his work also analyzes the historical peculiarities that led the profession to a key role in the contemporary backlash against federal initiatives dating from the 1930s to reform the nation's economic and social life. Interestingly enough, scholars have largely overlooked the history that has shaped this profession. An economist by training, Bernstein brings a historian's sensibilities to his narrative, utilizing extensive archival research to reveal unspoken presumptions that, through the agency of economists themselves, have come to mold and define, and sometimes actually deform, public discourse. This book offers important, even troubling insights to readers interested in the modern economic and political history of the United States and perplexed by recent trends in public policy debate. It also complements a growing literature on the history of the social sciences. Sure to have a lasting impact on its field, A Perilous Progress represents an extraordinary contribution of gritty empirical research and conceptual boldness, of grand narrative breadth and profound analytical depth.
Poverty And Progress
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Author : Stephan THERNSTROM
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Poverty And Progress written by Stephan THERNSTROM and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with History categories.
Embedded in the consciousness of Americans throughout much of the country's history has been the American Dream: that every citizen, no matter how humble his beginnings, is free to climb to the top of the social and economic ladder. Poverty and Progress assesses the claims of the American Dream against the actual structure of economic and social opportunities in a typical nineteenth century industrial community--Newburyport, Massachusetts. Here is local history. With the aid of newspapers, census reports, and local tax, school, and savings bank records Stephan Thernstrom constructs a detailed and vivid portrait of working class life in Newburyport from 1850 to 1880, the critical years in which this old New England town was transformed into a booming industrial city. To determine how many self-made men there really were in the community, he traces the career patterns of hundreds of obscure laborers and their sons over this thirty year period, exploring in depth the differing mobility patterns of native-born and Irish immigrant workmen. Out of this analysis emerges the conclusion that opportunities for occupational mobility were distinctly limited. Common laborers and their sons were rarely able to attain middle class status, although many rose from unskilled to semiskilled or skilled occupations. But another kind of mobility was widespread. Men who remained in lowly laboring jobs were often strikingly successful in accumulating savings and purchasing homes and a plot of land. As a result, the working class was more easily integrated into the community; a new basis for social stability was produced which offset the disruptive influences that accompanied the first shock of urbanization and industrialization. Since Newburyport underwent changes common to other American cities, Thernstrom argues, his findings help to illuminate the social history of nineteenth century America and provide a new point of departure for gauging mobility trends in our society today. Correlating the Newburyport evidence with comparable studies of twentieth century cities, he refutes the popular belief that it is now more difficult to rise from the bottom of the social ladder than it was in the idyllic past. The "blocked mobility" theory was proposed by Lloyd Warner in his famous "Yankee City" studies of Newburyport; Thernstrom provides a thorough critique of the "Yankee City" volumes and of the ahistorical style of social research which they embody.
American Progress
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Author : Veda Boyd Jones
language : en
Publisher: Barbour Books
Release Date : 2012-01-01
American Progress written by Veda Boyd Jones and has been published by Barbour Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Girls are girls wherever they live—and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8–12-year-old girls: Maureen the Detective: The Age of Immigration (covering the year 1903), Maria Takes a Stand: The Battle for Women’s Rights (1914), Carrie’s Courage: Battling the Powers of Bigotry (1923), and Anna’s Fight for Hope: The Great Depression (1931), American Progress will transport readers back to America’s national maturation of the early twentieth century, teaching important lessons of history and Christian faith. Featuring bonus educational materials such as time lines and brief biographies of key historical figures, American Progress is ideal for anytime reading and an excellent resource for home schooling.
The Economy Of The American People
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Author : Gerhard Colm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
The Economy Of The American People written by Gerhard Colm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with United States categories.