Ragged to Riis's: Conflicting Views Of The American Dream Life in New York City at the end of the 19th century was exciting but tumultuous. Social class stratifications rose to the surface as successive waves of immigrants from widely different par Continue Reading...
When Alger's Ragged Dick put himself forward for hire as a guide for a rich boy who is visiting the city, the boy's businessman uncle hesitated to entrust his nephew to him. But after reflection the older man decided that although Dick "isn't exact Continue Reading...
In this regard, Sayer advises that: The distinctiveness [of bourgeois capitalism] lies as much in its organization of production. It is the continuous and rational employment of capital in a productive enterprise for the acquisition of profit, espe Continue Reading...
Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-blacks (1868) Ragged Dick is the first of a series of books Horatio Alger wrote about young boys and for young boys (Trachtenberg, 1990). The protagonist is a boy of 14 named Dic Continue Reading...
Horatio Alger According to author Harlon L. Dalton, the Horatio Alger myth is not simply a myth because it is about a fictional character, but because people have dangerously believed it to be true as a sociological fact for far too many years. The Continue Reading...
Industrialization after U.S. Civil War AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION AFTER THE U.S. CIVIL WAR (1865-1920) It is a truism that large-scale warfare tends to increase industrial production and innovation, and that societies benefit from this industrializ Continue Reading...
In addition to the Jewish population that was decimated by Hitler's Final Solution, the gypsy population was a targeted victim. According to the Jewish Virtual Library (JVL), "it is known that perhaps 250,000 Gypsies were killed, and that proportion Continue Reading...
