Atlantic crossings
Subtitle: social politics in a progressive age
By: Daniel T. Rodgers.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Belknap Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 634
Subjects: Progressivism (United States politics); United States -- Social conditions; United States -- Economic conditions; Europe -- Social conditions; Europe -- Economic conditions; Europe -- Foreign economic relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Europe
Description: On a narrative canvas that sweeps across Europe and the United States, Daniel T. Rodgers retells the story of the classic era of efforts to repair the damage of unbridled capitalism. He reveals the forgotten international roots of such innovations as city planning, rural cooperatives, modernist architecture for public housing, and social insurance, among other reforms.

From small beginnings to reconstructions of the new great cities and rural life, and to the wide-ranging mechanics of social security for working people, Rodgers finds the interconnections, adaptations, exchanges, and even rivalries in the Atlantic region's social planning. He uncovers the immense diffusion of talent, ideas, and action that were breathtaking in their range and impact.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-612) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Paris, 1900
pagenum: 8; title: World of Iron
pagenum: 8; title: Explaining Social Politics
pagenum: 20; label: 2
title: The Atlantic World
pagenum: 33; title: Landscapes
pagenum: 33; title: Progressive Politics
pagenum: 52; label: 3
title: Twilight of Laissez-Faire
pagenum: 76; title: Natural Acts and Social Desires
pagenum: 76; title: Professing Economics
pagenum: 97; label: 4
title: The Self-Owned City
pagenum: 112; title: The Collectivism of Urban Life
pagenum: 112; title: Cities on a Hill
pagenum: 130; label: 5
title: Civic Ambitions
pagenum: 160; title: Private Property, Public Designs
pagenum: 160; title: "City Planning in Justice to the Working Population"
pagenum: 181; label: 6
title: The Wage Earner's Risks
pagenum: 208; title: Workingmen's Insurance
pagenum: 209; title: Fields of Interest
pagenum: 235; label: 7
title: War Collectivism
pagenum: 267; title: Europe, 1914
pagenum: 267; title: Society "More or Less Molten"
pagenum: 290; label: 8
title: Rural Reconstruction
pagenum: 318; title: Cooperative Farming
pagenum: 318; title: Island Communities
pagenum: 343; label: 9
title: The Machine Age
pagenum: 367; title: The American Invasion of Europe
pagenum: 367; title: The Politics of Modernism
pagenum: 391; label: 10
title: New Deal
pagenum: 409; title: The Intellectual Economy of Catastrophe
pagenum: 409; title: Solidarity Imagined
pagenum: 446; label: 11
title: London, 1942
pagenum: 485; title: The Plan to Abolish Want
pagenum: 485; title: The Phoenix of Exceptionalism
pagenum: 502; title: Notes
pagenum: 511; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 613; title: Index
pagenum: 615