Essays on American social history.

Book

Essays on American social history. Edited by John Lankford [and] David Reimers.

Lankford, John, 1934- (comp.). Reimers, David M., (joint comp.).

Record details

ISBN: 0030790859
ISBN: 9780030790850
Physical Description: viii, 408 p. 26 cm.
Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1970]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:: The American social order: a conservative hypothesis / Rowland Berthoff -- Notes on life in Plymouth Colony / John Demos -- Foundations of political power in the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1720-1776 / Jack P. Greene -- The sect to denomination process in America: the Freewill Baptist experience / Ruth B. Bordin -- The social order of the anthracite region, 1825-1902 / Rowland Berthoff -- The slave south: an interpretation / Eugene D. Genovese -- The Maryland gentry and social mobility, 1637-1676 / William A. Reavis -- A Virginian moves to Kentucky, 1793 / Lowell H. Harrison -- The American Revolution as a colonial war for independence / Thomas C. Barrow -- A crusade to extend Yankee culture / Richard Lyle Power -- Epilogue from The liberator / John L. Thomas -- The significance of the African background / E. Franklin Frazier -- Consciousness of kind / Robert Ernst -- Ethics and enterprise : the values of a Boston elite, 1800-1860 / Paul Goodman -- Ethics, forklore, and morality on the middle border / Lewis Atherton.

The family and its functions / William Ogburn and Clark Tibbitts -- Revolution without ideology: the changing place of women in America / Carl Degler -- Religion and culture in present-day America / Will Herberg -- Crime as an American way of life / Daniel Bell -- Mangerial employees in anthracite, 1902: a study in occupational mobility / Ray Ginger -- The process of mobility / Stephan Thernstrom -- Is America still the land of opportunity? / William Petersen -- Our invisible poor / Dwight Macdonald -- The power within / Irvin G. Wyllie -- The tradition of opportunity and the aspirations of automobile workers / Ely Chinoy -- Revolution on the farm / Albert Britt -- The changing economic function of the central city / Raymond Vernon -- Assimilation in America: theory and reality / Milton Gordon -- The formation of racial ghettos and the conditions of life in the ghettos / Report of the National Adivsory Commission on Civil Disorders -- The Negro family: the case for national action / The Moynihan Report.