Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State
Debates about poverty and inequality in the United States frequently invoke the early twentieth century as a time when new social legislation helped moderate corporate power. But as historian Daniel Amsterdam shows, the relationship between business interests and the development of American governme...
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Zusammenfassung: | Debates about poverty and inequality in the United States frequently invoke the early twentieth century as a time when new social legislation helped moderate corporate power. But as historian Daniel Amsterdam shows, the relationship between business interests and the development of American government was hardly so simple.Roaring Metropolis reconstructs the ideas and activism of urban capitalists roughly a century ago. Far from antigovernment stalwarts, business leaders in cities across the country often advocated extensive government spending on an array of social programs. They championed public schooling, public health, the construction of libraries, museums, parks, and playgrounds, and decentralized cities filled with freestanding homes—a set of initiatives that they believed would foster political stability and economic growth during an era of explosive, often chaotic, urban expansion.The efforts of businessmen on this front had deep historical roots but bore the most fruit during the 1920s, an era often misconstrued as an antigovernment moment. As Daniel Amsterdam illustrates, public spending soared across urban America during the decade due in part to businessmen's political activism. With a focus on three different cities—Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta—and a host of political groups—organized labor, machine politicians, African American and immigrant activists, middle-class women's groups, and the Ku Klux Klan—Roaring Metropolis traces businessmen's quest to build cities and nurture an urban citizenry friendly to capitalism and the will of urban capitalists |
Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed June 01., 2017) |
Beschreibung: | 1 online resource 20 illus |
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INHALT 6 VORWORT UND DANK 9 BIOGRAPHIE 27 DAS MALERISCHE WERK HERMANN
DISCHLERS IM CHRONOLOGISCHEN UEBERBLICK 29 DIE ZEIT VOR 1900 30 FREIBURG
UND UMGEBUNG 34 DAS ELSASS UND BREISACH 38 FASZINATION ALTRHEIN 44
AUSFLUEGE NACH BAYERN, HESSEN, WUERTTEMBERG UND IN DIE PFALZ 54 DIE
FREIBURGER ZEIT (1900-1907) 56 MENSCHEN UND TIERE IM WERK HERMANN
DISCHLERS 60 RUND UM THURNER UND ST. MAERGEN 66 DISCHLERS
WINTERUNTERKUENFTE 72 NATURSTUDIEN AM FELDBERG 86 DIE HINTERZARTENER ZEIT
(1908-1935) 86 HINTERZARTENER MOTIVE 126 FELDBERG-MOTIVE 144
ROSASTIMMUNGEN 166 HOCHZEITSREISE NACH SCHOENENBACH 170 AQUARELLE,
TEMPERA UND AQUA-TEMPERABILDER 182 MOTIVE AUS DEM SIMONSWAELDER-, ELZ-
UND GLOTTERTAL 186 DER HOTZENWALD 194 ST. PETER 201 VERZEICHNIS DER
WERKE 203 ABKUERZUNGSVERZEICHNIS 238 LITERATUR ZU HERMANN DISCHLER 241
DISCHLER ANSICHTSKARTEN VON MANFRED GALLO BIBLIOGRAFISCHE INFORMATIONEN
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spelling | Amsterdam, Daniel Verfasser aut Roaring Metropolis Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State Daniel Amsterdam Philadelphia, Pa. University of Pennsylvania Press [2016] © 2016 1 online resource 20 illus txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier American Business, Politics, and Society Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed June 01., 2017) Debates about poverty and inequality in the United States frequently invoke the early twentieth century as a time when new social legislation helped moderate corporate power. But as historian Daniel Amsterdam shows, the relationship between business interests and the development of American government was hardly so simple.Roaring Metropolis reconstructs the ideas and activism of urban capitalists roughly a century ago. Far from antigovernment stalwarts, business leaders in cities across the country often advocated extensive government spending on an array of social programs. They championed public schooling, public health, the construction of libraries, museums, parks, and playgrounds, and decentralized cities filled with freestanding homes—a set of initiatives that they believed would foster political stability and economic growth during an era of explosive, often chaotic, urban expansion.The efforts of businessmen on this front had deep historical roots but bore the most fruit during the 1920s, an era often misconstrued as an antigovernment moment. As Daniel Amsterdam illustrates, public spending soared across urban America during the decade due in part to businessmen's political activism. With a focus on three different cities—Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta—and a host of political groups—organized labor, machine politicians, African American and immigrant activists, middle-class women's groups, and the Ku Klux Klan—Roaring Metropolis traces businessmen's quest to build cities and nurture an urban citizenry friendly to capitalism and the will of urban capitalists In English Geschichte 1920-1929 gnd rswk-swf American History American Studies Business Economics Political Science Public Policy Wirtschaft Wohltätigkeit (DE-588)4190155-1 gnd rswk-swf Kapitalismus (DE-588)4029577-1 gnd rswk-swf Atlanta, Ga. (DE-588)4086063-2 gnd rswk-swf Philadelphia, Pa. (DE-588)4103331-0 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf Detroit, Mich. (DE-588)4011559-8 gnd rswk-swf 1\p (DE-588)4522595-3 Fallstudiensammlung gnd-content USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Detroit, Mich. (DE-588)4011559-8 g Philadelphia, Pa. (DE-588)4103331-0 g Atlanta, Ga. (DE-588)4086063-2 g Wohltätigkeit (DE-588)4190155-1 s Kapitalismus (DE-588)4029577-1 s Geschichte 1920-1929 z 2\p DE-604 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292732 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext DNB Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=029801961&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
spellingShingle | Amsterdam, Daniel Roaring Metropolis Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State American History American Studies Business Economics Political Science Public Policy Wirtschaft Wohltätigkeit (DE-588)4190155-1 gnd Kapitalismus (DE-588)4029577-1 gnd |
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title | Roaring Metropolis Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State |
title_auth | Roaring Metropolis Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State |
title_exact_search | Roaring Metropolis Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State |
title_full | Roaring Metropolis Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State Daniel Amsterdam |
title_fullStr | Roaring Metropolis Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State Daniel Amsterdam |
title_full_unstemmed | Roaring Metropolis Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State Daniel Amsterdam |
title_short | Roaring Metropolis |
title_sort | roaring metropolis businessmen s campaign for a civic welfare state |
title_sub | Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State |
topic | American History American Studies Business Economics Political Science Public Policy Wirtschaft Wohltätigkeit (DE-588)4190155-1 gnd Kapitalismus (DE-588)4029577-1 gnd |
topic_facet | American History American Studies Business Economics Political Science Public Policy Wirtschaft Wohltätigkeit Kapitalismus Atlanta, Ga. Philadelphia, Pa. USA Detroit, Mich. Fallstudiensammlung |
url | https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292732 http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=029801961&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
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