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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year ...
Author: The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600–1870
Author: Daniel R. MandellPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421437112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
An important examination of the foundational American ideal of economic equality—and how we lost it. Winner of the Missouri Conference on History Book Award for 2021 The United States has some of the highest levels of both wealth and income inequality in the world. Although modern-day Americans are increasingly concerned about this growing inequality, many nonetheless believe that the country was founded on a person's right to acquire and control property. But in The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600–1870, Daniel R. Mandell argues that, in fact, the United States was originally deeply influenced by the belief that maintaining a "rough" or relative equality of wealth is essential to the cultivation of a successful republican government. Mandell explores the origins and evolution of this ideal. He shows how, during the Revolutionary War, concerns about economic equality helped drive wage and price controls, while after its end Americans sought ways to maintain their beloved "rough" equality against the danger of individuals amassing excessive wealth. He also examines how, after 1800, this tradition was increasingly marginalized by the growth of the liberal ideal of individual property ownership without limits. This politically evenhanded book takes a sweeping, detailed view of economic, social, and cultural developments up to the time of Reconstruction, when Congress refused to redistribute plantation lands to the former slaves who had worked it, insisting instead that they required only civil and political rights. Informing current discussions about the growing gap between rich and poor in the United States, The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America is surprising and enlightening.
Bibliography of Rhode Island
Author: John Russell BartlettPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the New-York Historical Society
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: The Age of Promise
Author: Frank Warren CrowPublisher:
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Category : Societies
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
American Bibliography: 1795-1796
Author: Charles EvansPublisher:
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Category : Printers
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
1777-1817
Author: Kress Library of Business and EconomicsPublisher:
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
National Register of Microform Masters
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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