Institutional Life: Family, Schools, Race, and Religion

by Shumsky,Neil L.

• ISBN13: 9780815321934
• ISBN10: 0815321937
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
New Branches on the Tree: Household Structure in Early Stages of the Family Cycle in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1860-1880	p. 1
The Black Family in Evansville	p. 19
The Pressure to Provide: Class Consumerism, and Divorce in Urban America, 1880-1920	p. 50
Social Status, Acculturation and School Attendance in 1850 Boston	p. 65
Americanization, Acculturation, and Social Control: School Reform Ideology in Industrial Pennsylvania, 1880-1910	p. 79
Integration, Freedom of Choice and Community Control in Nineteenth Century Brooklyn	p. 101
The Education of Immigrant Children in Buffalo, New York, 1890-1916	p. 125
The Persistence of School Segregation in the Urban North: An Historical Perspective	p. 143
The "White Flight" Controversy	p. 161
Our Good Methodists: The Church, the Factory, and the Working Class in Ante-Bellum Webster, Massachusetts	p. 176
The Congregational Community in the Changing City, 1840-70	p. 189
Politics and Apolitical Religion: The Great Urban Revivals of the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 203
Ethnic Conflict and Episcopal Power: The Diocese of Cleveland, 1847-1870	p. 222
Catholic Social Institutions and Urban Development: The View from Nineteenth-Century Chicago and Milwaukee	p. 242
Miracles for a Dime: From Chautauqua Tent to Radio Station with Sister Aimee	p. 260
The Social Functions of Voluntary Associations in a Nineteenth-Century American Town	p. 271
Worker and Community: Fraternal Orders in Albany, New York, 1845-1885	p. 294
The Quest for Subcommunities and the Rise of American Sport	p. 311
Benevolence in Emergent San Francisco: A Note on Immigrant Life in the Urban Far West	p. 327
Voluntarism and Modernization in Portland Jewry: The B'nai B'rith in the 1920s	p. 341
Criminal Violence in America: The First Hundred Years	p. 359
1870: To the Hangman's Tree: Helena's Last Vigilante Execution	p. 372
The Tampa Flogging Case, Urban Vigilantism	p. 381
Perspectives on Policing in Nineteenth-Century America	p. 396
Urbanization and the Maintenance of Order: Detroit, 1824-1847	p. 412
Detroit and the Problem of Disorder: The Riot of 1863	p. 435
The Conflict between Blacks and the Police in the Urban South, 1865-1900	p. 456
Historical Roots of Police Behavior: Chicago, 1890-1925	p. 471
Acknowledgments	p. 493
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