The People’s Welfare

The People’s Welfare

Author: William J. Novak

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2000-11-09

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0807863653

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Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In The People's Welfare, William Novak refutes this vision of a stateless past by documenting America's long history of government regulation in the areas of public safety, political economy, public property, morality, and public health. Challenging the myth of American individualism, Novak recovers a distinctive nineteenth-century commitment to shared obligations and public duties in a well-regulated society. Novak explores the by-laws, ordinances, statutes, and common law restrictions that regulated almost every aspect of America's society and economy, including fire regulations, inspection and licensing rules, fair marketplace laws, the moral policing of prostitution and drunkenness, and health and sanitary codes. Based on a reading of more than one thousand court cases in addition to the leading legal and political texts of the nineteenth century, The People's Welfare demonstrates the deep roots of regulation in America and offers a startling reinterpretation of the history of American governance.


Rude Republic

Rude Republic

Author: Glenn C. Altschuler

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2001-08-12

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780691089867

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In this look at Americans and their politics, the authors argue for a more complex understanding of the space occupied by politics in 19th-century American society and culture.


Nineteenth Century America in the Society of States

Nineteenth Century America in the Society of States

Author: Cornelia Navari

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-12-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1003807887

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This book examines how the United States adopted and contributed to the practices of international society—the habits and practices states use to regulate their relations—during the nineteenth century. Expert contributors consider America’s "entry" into international society and how independence forced it to enter into diplomatic relations with European states and start a permanent engagement with a society of states. Individual chapters focus on U.S. perceptions of the international order and its place within it, the U.S. position on international issues of that period, and how America’s perceptions and positions affected or were affected by the habits, practices, and institutions of international society. This volume will serve as an invaluable text for undergraduate courses focusing on international relations theory and U.S. foreign policy. It will also appeal to established scholars in international relations, diplomacy, and international history and historical sociology.


The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth-century United States

The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth-century United States

Author: Angela G. Ray

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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Angela Ray provides a refreshing new look at the lyceum lecture system as it developed in the United States from the 1820s to the 1880s. She argues that the lyceum contributed to the creation of an American "public" at a time when the country experienced a rapid change in land area, increasing immigration, and a revolution in transportation, communication technology, and social roles. The history of the lyceum in the nineteenth century illustrates a process of expansion, diffusion, and eventual commercialization. In the late 1820s, a politically and economically dominant culture--the white Protestant northeastern middle class--institutionalized the practice of public debating and public lecturing for education and moral uplift. In the 1820s and 1830s, the lyceum was characterized by organized groups in cities and towns, particularly in the Northeast and the Old Northwest (now the Midwest). These groups were established to promote debate, to create a setting for study, and to provide a forum for members' lecturing. By the 1840s and 1850s, however, most lyceums concentrated on the sponsorship of public lectures, presented for institutional profit as well as public instruction and entertainment. Eventually, lyceum lectures became a commercial enterprise and desirable platform for celebrities who wished to expand their incomes from lecturing.


Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth-century United States

Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth-century United States

Author: James Willard Hurst

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1956

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780299013639

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In these essays J. Willard Hurst shows the correlation between the conception of individual freedom and the application of law in the nineteenth-century United States--how individuals sought to use law to increase both their personal freedom and their opportunities for personal growth. These essays in jurisprudence and legal history are also a contribution to the study of social and intellectual history in the United States, to political science, and to economics as it concerns the role of public policy in our economy. The nonlawyer will find in them demonstration of how "technicalities" express deep issues of social values.


A Government Out of Sight

A Government Out of Sight

Author: Brian Balogh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-04-06

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0521820979

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A Government Out of Sight revises our understanding of the ways in which Americans turned to the national government throughout the nineteenth century.


Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century United States

Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century United States

Author: Barbara Young Welke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-03-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780521152259

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For more than a generation, historians and legal scholars have documented inequalities at the heart of American law and daily life and exposed inconsistencies in the generic category of "American citizenship." Welke draws on that wealth of historical, legal, and theoretical scholarship to offer a new paradigm of liberal selfhood and citizenship from the founding of the United States through the 1920s. Law and the Borders of Belonging questions understanding this period through a progressive narrative of expanding rights, revealing that it was characterized instead by a sustained commitment to borders of belonging of liberal selfhood, citizenship, and nation in which able white men's privilege depended on the subject status of disabled persons, racialized others, and women. Welke's conclusions pose challenging questions about the modern liberal democratic state that extend well beyond the temporal and geographic boundaries of the long nineteenth century United States.


The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America

The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America

Author: Jonathan Daniel Wells

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-14

Total Pages: 741

ISBN-13: 131766549X

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The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America provides an important overview of the main themes within the study of the long nineteenth century. The book explores major currents of research over the past few decades to give an up-to-date synthesis of nineteenth-century history. It shows how the century defined much of our modern world, focusing on themes including: immigration, slavery and racism, women's rights, literature and culture, and urbanization. This collection reflects the state of the field and will be essential reading for all those interested in the development of the modern United States.