1. Tramps, Fallen Women, and Neglected Children: Political Culture and the Urban Poor in the Late Nineteenth Century

The exceptional character of the United States' political culture has been and continues to be hotly contested. In the late nineteenth century, commentators framed radical ideologies as “un-American” and they subsequently entered the political lexicon as alien to American ideals and values. However, far less scholarly attention has been given to alternative definitions of “un-American” activity that emerged in the late nineteenth century. This article examines the charges made by contemporaries against the “un-American” town of Pullman and of George Pullman's patronage of his town and its workers. Through a close reading of Addams's critique of Pullman as “A Modern Lear” as well as other narratives and counternarratives contained within contemporary speeches, pamphlets, and newspaper and journal articles, this essay will demonstrate the flexible nature of the charge of “un-Americanism” in the crisis years of the 1890s. In that decade, the character of the modern nation was still highly contested and although the conservative, anti-union view won the immediate Pullman battle, it did not do so without a fight and it did not ultimately succeed in defining the character of the modern nation.

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Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Late Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. By Sherri Broder (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. vii plus 259 pp.)

Journal of Social History ◽

10.1353/jsh.2004.0024 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 794-796

Author(s):

E. Schneider

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

University Of Pennsylvania ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

The Family ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Neglected Children

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The politics of neglect: policing, institutionalising, and providing for ‘neglected children’ in late nineteenth-century Queensland (1881-1900)

Cultural and Social History ◽

10.1080/14780038.2021.1888429 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-22

Author(s):

Clarissa Carden ◽

Kerry Wimshurst

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Neglected Children

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On the Difficulty of Being a National Liberal in Nineteenth-Century Finland

Contributions to the History of Concepts ◽

10.3167/choc.2013.080205 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 83-95 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jussi Kurunmäki

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Political Culture ◽

Political Life ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Late Nineteenth

This article examines the ways in which the Finnish liberals described themselves as national liberals and how they were labeled by their opponents as supporters of foreign doctrines and cosmopolitanism in the late nineteenth century. It will be shown that the rhetoric of liberalism was entangled in an inflamed issue between the advocates of Finnish and Swedish languages in Finland. Ultimately, this contest dealt with the concept of nation. Furthermore, the article discusses the uses of other countries' political life as exemplary cases, thus bringing a transnational perspective into the analysis. The contested character of the concept of liberalism and its compound form, national liberalism (nationell liberalism, kansallinen liberalismi), will be highlighted by paying attention to the semantic differences between Swedish-language and Finnish-language uses of the concept. The article closes with an interpretation of the weak role that the concept of liberalism has played in nineteenth-century Finnish political culture.

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