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The Remaking of Pittsburgh
Author | : Francis G. Couvares |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1984-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780873957793 |
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What forces transformed a community in which industrial workers and other citizens exercised a real measure of power over their lives into a metropolis whose inhabitants were utterly dependent on Big Steel? How did a city that fervidly embraced the labor struggle of 1877 turn into the city which so fiercely repudiated the labor struggle of 1919? The Remaking of Pittsburgh is the history of this transformation. The cultural dimensions of industrialization come to life as Couvares calls upon labor history, urban history, and the history of popular culture to depict the demise of the craftsman's empire and the birth of a cosmopolitan bourgeois society. The book explores the impact of immigration on the shaping of modern Pittsburgh and the emergence of mass culture within the community. In the midst of these processes of transformation, the giant steel corporations were continually reshaping the life of the city.
Remaking the Rust Belt
Author | : Tracy Neumann |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2016-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812248272 |
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Remaking the Rust Belt tells the story of how local leaders throughout the Rust Belt adapted internationally circulating ideas about postindustrial redevelopment to create the jobs and amenities they believed would attract middle-class professionals, but in so doing widened and deepened economic inequality among urban residents.
Mellon
Author | : David Cannadine |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 2021-06-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780593467312 |
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A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each. Andrew Mellon, one of America’s greatest financiers, built a legendary personal fortune from banking to oil to aluminum manufacture, tracking America’s course to global economic supremacy. As treasury secretary under Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and finally Hoover, Mellon made the federal government run like a business–prefiguring the public official as CEO. He would be hailed as the architect of the Roaring Twenties, but, staying too long, would be blamed for the Great Depression, eventually to find himself a broken idol. Collecting art was his only nonprofessional gratification and his great gift to the American people, The National Gallery of Art, remains his most tangible legacy.
The Fox and the Flies
Author | : Charles van Onselen |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 2007-09-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780802716415 |
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Reconstructs the life and crimes of nineteenth-century criminal Joseph Silver, detailing his diverse careers as a burglar, gun runner, jewel thief, and trafficker in prostitution and female slavery, and presents evidence that he was responsible for the mu
Religion Art and Money
Author | : Peter W. Williams |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2016-02-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781469626987 |
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This cultural history of mainline Protestantism and American cities--most notably, New York City--focuses on wealthy, urban Episcopalians and the influential ways they used their money. Peter W. Williams argues that such Episcopalians, many of them the country's most successful industrialists and financiers, left a deep and lasting mark on American urban culture. Their sense of public responsibility derived from a sacramental theology that gave credit to the material realm as a vehicle for religious experience and moral formation, and they came to be distinguished by their participation in major aesthetic and social welfare endeavors. Williams traces how the church helped transmit a European-inflected artistic patronage that was adapted to the American scene by clergy and laity intent upon providing moral and aesthetic leadership for a society in flux. Episcopalian influence is most visible today in the churches, cathedrals, and elite boarding schools that stand in many cities and other locations, but Episcopalians also provided major support to the formation of stellar art collections, the performing arts, and the Arts and Crafts movement. Williams argues that Episcopalians thus helped smooth the way for acceptance of materiality in religious culture in a previously iconoclastic, Puritan-influenced society.
Remaking Cities
Author | : Barbara Davis |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015015461778 |
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The Deindustrialized World
Author | : Steven High,Lachlan MacKinnon,Andrew Perchard |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2017-07-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780774834964 |
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Since the 1970s, the closure of mines, mills, and factories has marked a rupture in working-class lives. The Deindustrialized World interrogates the process of industrial ruination, from the first impact of layoffs in metropolitan cities, suburban areas, and single-industry towns to the shock waves that rippled outward, affecting entire regions, countries, and beyond. Scholars from five nations share personal stories of ruin and ruination and ask others what it means to be working class in a postindustrial world. Together, they open a window on the lived experiences of people living at ground zero of deindustrialization, revealing its layered impacts and examining how workers, environmentalists, activists, and the state have responded to its challenges.
Confessions of a School Reformer
Author | : Larry Cuban |
Publsiher | : Harvard Education Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2022-10-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781682536971 |
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In Confessions of a School Reformer, eminent historian of education Larry Cuban reflects on nearly a century of education reforms and his experiences with them as a student, educator, and administrator. Cuban begins his own story in the 1930s, when he entered first grade at a Pittsburgh public school, the youngest son of Russian immigrants who placed great stock in the promises of education. With a keen historian's eye, Cuban expands his personal narrative to analyze the overlapping social, political, and economic movements that have attempted to influence public schooling in the United States since the beginning of the twentieth century. He documents how education both has and has not been altered by the efforts of the Progressive Era of the first half of the twentieth century, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s through the 1970s, and the standards-based school reform movement of the 1980s through today. Cuban points out how these dissimilar movements nevertheless shared a belief that school change could promote student success and also forge a path toward a stronger economy and a more equitable society. He relates the triumphs of these school reform efforts as well as more modest successes and unintended outcomes. Interwoven with Cuban's evaluations and remembrances are his "confessions," in which he accounts for the beliefs he held and later rejected, as well as mistakes and areas of weakness that he has found in his own ideology. Ultimately, Cuban remarks with a tempered optimism on what schools can and cannot do in American democracy.