Download or read book The Web of Progress written by William H. Pease and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An abridgement of Stedman's containing some 30,000 entries with pronunciation, etymology and definitions adequate to the uses of the lay and professional reader/writer. No illustrations. The Oxford UP edition (of which this is a reprint) was winner of the 1986 New England Historical Association Book Award. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Pricing of Progress written by Eli Cook and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Americans come to quantify their society’s progress and well-being in units of money? In today’s GDP-run world, prices are the standard measure of not only our goods and commodities but our environment, our communities, our nation, even our self-worth. The Pricing of Progress traces the long history of how and why we moderns adopted the monetizing values and valuations of capitalism as an indicator of human prosperity while losing sight of earlier social and moral metrics that did not put a price on everyday life. Eli Cook roots the rise of economic indicators in the emergence of modern capitalism and the contested history of English enclosure, Caribbean slavery, American industrialization, economic thought, and corporate power. He explores how the maximization of market production became the chief objective of American economic and social policy. We see how distinctly capitalist quantification techniques used to manage or invest in railroad corporations, textile factories, real estate holdings, or cotton plantations escaped the confines of the business world and seeped into every nook and cranny of society. As economic elites quantified the nation as a for-profit, capitalized investment, the progress of its inhabitants, free or enslaved, came to be valued according to their moneymaking abilities. Today as in the nineteenth century, political struggles rage over who gets to determine the statistical yardsticks used to gauge the “health” of our economy and nation. The Pricing of Progress helps us grasp the limits and dangers of entrusting economic indicators to measure social welfare and moral goals.
Download or read book The World s Progress written by Delphian Society and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poverty and Progress written by Stephan THERNSTROM and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embedded in the consciousness of Americans throughout much of the country's history has been the American Dream: that every citizen, no matter how humble his beginnings, is free to climb to the top of the social and economic ladder. Poverty and Progress assesses the claims of the American Dream against the actual structure of economic and social opportunities in a typical nineteenth century industrial community--Newburyport, Massachusetts. Here is local history. With the aid of newspapers, census reports, and local tax, school, and savings bank records Stephan Thernstrom constructs a detailed and vivid portrait of working class life in Newburyport from 1850 to 1880, the critical years in which this old New England town was transformed into a booming industrial city. To determine how many self-made men there really were in the community, he traces the career patterns of hundreds of obscure laborers and their sons over this thirty year period, exploring in depth the differing mobility patterns of native-born and Irish immigrant workmen. Out of this analysis emerges the conclusion that opportunities for occupational mobility were distinctly limited. Common laborers and their sons were rarely able to attain middle class status, although many rose from unskilled to semiskilled or skilled occupations. But another kind of mobility was widespread. Men who remained in lowly laboring jobs were often strikingly successful in accumulating savings and purchasing homes and a plot of land. As a result, the working class was more easily integrated into the community; a new basis for social stability was produced which offset the disruptive influences that accompanied the first shock of urbanization and industrialization. Since Newburyport underwent changes common to other American cities, Thernstrom argues, his findings help to illuminate the social history of nineteenth century America and provide a new point of departure for gauging mobility trends in our society today. Correlating the Newburyport evidence with comparable studies of twentieth century cities, he refutes the popular belief that it is now more difficult to rise from the bottom of the social ladder than it was in the idyllic past. The "blocked mobility" theory was proposed by Lloyd Warner in his famous "Yankee City" studies of Newburyport; Thernstrom provides a thorough critique of the "Yankee City" volumes and of the ahistorical style of social research which they embody.
Download or read book Engineering Progress written by Conrad Matschoss and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dock Engineer s Report on the General State and Progress of the Dock Works at Liverpool and Birkenhead written by Liverpool (England). Docks Office and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Idea of Progress written by Robert Nisbet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and talk shows, the debate between those who are "progressivists" and those who are "declinists" is as spirited as it was in the late seventeenth century. In History of the Idea of Progress, Robert Nisbet traces the idea of progress from its origins in Greek, Roman, and medieval civilizations to modern times. It is a masterful frame of reference for understanding the present world. Nisbet asserts there are two fundamental building blocks necessary to Western doctrines of human advancement: the idea of growth, and the idea of necessity. He sees Christianity as a key element in both secular and spiritual evolution, for it conveys all the ingredients of the modern idea of progress: the advancement of the human race in time, a single time frame for all the peoples and epochs of the past and present, the conception of time as linear, and the envisagement of the future as having a Utopian end. In his new introduction, Nisbet shows why the idea of progress remains of critical importance to studies of social evolution and natural history. He provides a contemporary basis for many disciplines, including sociology, economics, philosophy, religion, politics, and science. History of the Idea of Progress continues to be a major resource for scholars in all these areas.
Download or read book A Progress of Sentiments written by Annette Baier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baier aims to make sense of Hume's Treatise as a whole. Hume’s family motto was “True to the End.” Baier argues that it is not until the end of the Treatise that we get his full story about “truth and falsehood, reason and folly.” By the end, we can see the cause to which Hume has been true throughout the work.
Download or read book Progress Report written by Joint committee on standard specifications for concrete and reinforced concrete and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The flower of old Japan The progress of love The forest of wild thyme Drake written by Alfred Noyes and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enchanted Island Sherwood Tales of the Mermaid Tavern New Poems.
Download or read book Social Progress written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recent Progress in Electric Railways Being a Summary of Current Periodical Literature Relating to Electric Railway Construction Operation Systems Machinery Appliances Etc written by Carl Hering and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conditions of progress Genesis of man intellectually Genesis of man morally The question restated Anthropomorphic theism Cosmic theism Matter and spirit Religion as adjustment The critical attitude of philosophy written by John Fiske and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research in Progress written by North Carolina State University. Graduate School and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research in Progress written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
