Judgment and Sensibility - Religion and Stratification

List of contents

Introduction: Thoughts Out of Season; 1: From Rags to Robes: The Horatio Alger Myth and the Supreme Court; 2: Rich Men in Politics; 3: Class Authority in American History; 4: The Forging of an Aristocracy; 5: The Log Cabin Myth; 6: Gentlemen in Crisis: The Union League of Philadelphia; 7: Cadwaladers and Others; 8: Scenes from American Life; 9: From Patrician to Professional Elite; 10: The Rich and the Super-Rich; 11: The Peabody Influence; 12: The Celebrity and the Gentleman; 13: White Protestant Americans; 14: Blue-Blood Blues; 15: Dilemmas of Democracy: Tocqueville and Modernization; 16: Tocqueville and the Problem of Democracy; 17: The Rise and Fall of the Elites; 18: Five Contemporary Ben Franklins; 19: The Architecture of Frank Furness; 20: Philadelphia, the Crossroads of America; 21: The Divided Metropolis; 22: Class in Suburbia; 23: Goodbye to All That: Upper-Class Origins of American Sport; 24: The Sixties; 25: Habits of the Heart; 26: An Exploration of Subculture in American Life; 27: Canon and Class; 28: Bell Telephone’s Experiment in Education; 29: Soldiers and Civilians; 30: Urbanization and Governmental Administration; 31: Class and Scientism: America and England; 32: Factory Folkways; 33: The Illusions of Progress; 34: Changes in the Philadelphia Jewish Community; 35: The Jewish Communities of Philadelphia and Boston, 1740-1940: A Tale of Two Cities; 36: The Ordeal of Civility; 37: Drunk as a Lord, Sober as a Judge: The English Reformation and the Puritans

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E. Digby Baltzell

Summary

Judgment and Sensibility is the second volume of the collected essays of E

Product details

• Authors: BALTZELL, E. Digby Baltzell, Baltzell E. Digby
• Assisted by: E. Digby Baltzell (Editor), Howard G. Schneiderman (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781138511330
• ISBN: 978-1-138-51133-0
• No. of pages: 322
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Religious social and pastoral thought and activity, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Christian social thought & activity