Roaring Metropolis : businessmen's campaign for a civic welfare state /

Roaring Metropolis reconstructs the ideas and activism of urban capitalists in the early twentieth century as they advocated extensive government spending on an array of social programs. Focusing on Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, the book traces businessmen's quest to build cities and nurt...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Amsterdam, Daniel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2016.
Series:American business, politics, and society.
Subjects:
Detroit > Mich.
Philadelphia > PA
1900-1999
Businessmen > Political activity > United States > History > 20th century > Case studies.
Social change > United States > History > 20th century > Case studies.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Government & Business.
Businessmen > Political activity.
Politics and government.
Social change.
Social conditions.
Social policy.
Sozialpolitik
Unternehmer
Politisches Handeln
Sozialer Wandel
United States > Social policy > 20th century > Case studies.
Detroit (Mich.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Atlanta (Ga.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Atlanta (Ga.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
États-Unis > Politique sociale > 20e siècle > Études de cas.
Georgia > Atlanta.
Michigan > Detroit.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
United States.
USA
Atlanta, Ga.
Case studies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • At cross purposes: Businessmen's political activism before the Armistice
  • Detroit: businessmen at large
  • Philadelphia: Money and the machine
  • Atlanta: City building in black and white
  • Businessmen's social politics beyond the civic welfare state
  • Epilogu: the 1930s and after.

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