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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Those that will not work [by H. Mayhew and others
Author: Henry MayhewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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The Grammar of Good Intentions
Author: Susan M. RyanPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501718568
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Susan M. Ryan explores antebellum Americans' preoccupation with the language and practice of benevolence. Drawing on a variety of cultural and literary texts, she traces how people working and writing within social reform movements—and their outspoken opponents—helped solidify racial and class ideologies that ultimately marginalized even the most "deserving" poor. "The links between race and the relations of benevolence occasioned much soul-searching among antebellum Americans," Ryan explains. "In a period of heated public debate over issues such as slavery, Indian removal, and non-Protestant immigration, the categories of blackness, Indianness, and a generic 'foreignness' came to signify, for many whites, need itself." Ryan puts familiar literary works such as Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man, Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin back into dialogue with a broad range of print materials: the reports of charity societies, African American and Native American newspapers, juvenile fiction, travel writing, cartoons, sermons, and tract literature. In the process, she dispels the myth that authors usually classified as literary were responding to a simple and unquestioned cult of benevolence. Rather, she contends, they were participating in the complex and often rancorous debates occurring within the broader culture over how good intentions should be expressed and enacted.Ryan's inquiry into the antebellum culture of benevolence has implications for contemporary U.S. society, resonating especially with recent debates over welfare reform, the politics of compassionate conservatism, and representations of "welfare queens" and violent urban youth. As Ryan writes, "The conversations that this book reconstructs remind us of our ongoing participation in the national ritual of laying claim to good intentions."
London Labour and the London Poor: the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Cannot Work, and Will Not Work
Author: Henry MayhewPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Space and Place: Exploring Critical Issues
Author: Didem KılıçkıranPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 184888236X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
'Space and Place: Exploring Critical Issues' is an inter-disciplinary study exploring the nature of how we conceive, construct, interpret, practice, perceive and represent space and place.
Policing the City
Author: Andrew Todd HarrisPublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In Policing the City, Harris seeks to explain the transformation of criminal justice, particularly the transformation of policing, between the 1780s and 1830s in the City of London. As utilitarian legal reformers argued that criminal deterrence ought to be based on certain and rational punishment rather than random execution, they also had to control the discretionary authority of enforcement. This meant in theory and practice the centralization of policing in the 1830s, and the end of local policing, which was seen as corrupt, inefficient, and unsuitable for rational criminal justice. Revolutionary changes in policing began locally, however, in the 1780s. Such local changes preceded and inspired national reforms, and local policing up to the centralizing measures of the 1830s remained dynamic, responsive, and locally accountable right until its demise. Anxiety about policing had as much to do with the social origins of the police as it did about the origins of criminality, and control over the discretionary authority of watchmen and constables played a larger role in criminal justice reform than the nature of crime. The national, metropolitan, and City police reforms of the late 1830s were thus the culmination of a contentious argument over the meanings of justice, efficiency, and order, rather than its beginning. Harris's evidence reveals how what we've come to think of as "modern" policing evolved out of local practice and reflects shifts in wider debates about crime, justice, and discretionary authority.
Sketches of the Nineteenth Century
Author: M. LausterPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 023021097X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book discusses the visual and verbal city sketches which proliferated during the 'journalistic revolution' of the 1830s and 1840s. It shows how sketches transformed models of visual and printed media and of life science into a unique kind of sociology, presenting a self-critique of the middle class on the brink of industrial modernity.
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British Literature
Author: A Catalogue of Books in English Later Than 1700
Author: Robert HoePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Italy's Margins
Author: David ForgacsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139868144
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Italy's Margins explores how certain places and social groups in Italy have been defined as marginal or peripheral since unification. This marginalization involves not only concrete policies but also ways of perceiving people and places as outside society's centre. The author looks closely at how photography and writing have supported political and social exclusion and, conversely, how they have been enlisted to challenge it. Five cases are examined: the peripheries of Italy's major cities after unification; its East African colonies in the 1930s; the less developed areas of its south in the 1950s; its psychiatric hospitals before the reforms of the late 1970s; and its 'nomad camps' after 2000. Each chapter takes its lead from a symptomatic photograph and is followed by other pictures and extracts from written texts. These allow the reader to examine how social marginalization is discursively performed by cultural products.