The Journal of Interdisciplinary History articles from March 1999

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History archives from March 1999

The growth of voluntary associations in America, 1840-1940.(Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Comparative Perspective, part 2)
March 22, 1999... Americans are a civic people. Next to the mass political parry, probably no aspect of American democracy has been more celebrated than the long-standing proclivity of Americans to join voluntary associations. According to Schlesinger, we are "a...

Civil society as democratic practice: north American cities during the nineteenth century.(Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Comparative Perspective, part 2)
March 22, 1999... On the threshold of the twenty-first century, many scholars and citizens are grasping for some sense of societal purpose more substantial and satisfying than the aggregated narcissism that triumphed in the last. Yet, the various formulations of...

To advance the "practice of thrift and economy": fraternal societies and social capital, 1890-1920.(Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Comparative Perspective, part 2)
March 22, 1999... In conducting the affairs of the Order, women get business training that can be had in no other way. They learn the ways of handling money, and ordinary business forms, the lack of which knowledge is often so deplorable when women are obliged...

Securing political returns to social capital: women's associations in the United States, 1880s-1920s.(Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Comparative Perspective, part 2)
March 22, 1999... Social capital has proven exceptionally fruitful as a metaphor. By invoking financial imagery, this phrase points to the generative power of social ties, their capacity to produce social goods such as economic growth or effective governance....

Associations in Australian history: their contribution to social capital.(Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Comparative Perspective, part 2)
March 22, 1999... What is social capital, and where does it reside? Can we measure it, observe it, create it, or engineer it? Even if we can decide on "correct" indicators or develop policy measures to increase it, should we do so? Is it something that arises...

Second-generation civic America: education, citizenship, and the children of immigrants.(Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Comparative Perspective, part 2)
March 22, 1999... The onset of recurrent mass immigration forced the United States to deal with a new problem - "the preservation of the ability of people of dissimilar origins to act together under dissimilar conditions." Public institutions and ethnic groups...

Human capital and social capital: the rise of secondary schooling in America, 1910-1940.(Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Comparative Perspective, part 2)
March 22, 1999... The landlord who lives in town has only a financial interest and must be reached from the financial side. He may well be reminded that when he offers his farm for sale it will be to his advantage to advertise, "free transportation to a good...

From local to national political cultures: social capital and civic organization in the Great Plains.(Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Comparative Perspective, part 2)
March 22, 1999... It is exciting to think about Putnam's concept of social capital in the context of the semi-arid American Great Plains. Will his theorem hold in an environment so different - in every social and physical sense - from that of urban Italy? Putnam...

Civility, social capital, and civil society: three powerful concepts for explaining Asia.(Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Comparative Perspective, part 2)
March 22, 1999... Many knowledgeable people believe that developments in East and Southeast Asia will vindicate the theory that successful economic growth can set the stage for political democracy. Two decades of rapid economic growth there hold out the promise...