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COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION The Multiple Meanings of Matriarchies in American History -- 1. GYNECOCRACY IN THE GILDED AGE The Intellectual and Historical Foundations of American Matriarchalism -- 2. MOTHER-RULE IN THE MODERN WORLD Victorian Feminist Matriarchalism -- 3. WHITE QUEENS AND AFRICAN AMAZONS Imperial Matriarchalism at the Chicago World's Fair -- 4. WITCHES, WIZARDS, AND WOMEN OF CAST IRON American Matriarchalism Goes Mainstream -- 5. LIKE COMING HOME TO MOTHER Progressive Era Matriarchalism -- 6. THE AMAZING AMAZON Wonder Woman's Matriarchalist Superheroics -- 7. VIPERS AND MOMARCHIES Mid-Century Antimatriarchalism -- 8. GODDESSES, EARTH MOTHERS, AND FEMALE MEN The Matriarchies of the Women's Liberation Movement -- 9. MAMMIES, MATRIARCHS, AND WELFARE QUEENS Racist Matriarchalism -- EPILOGUE: MADEAS AND THE MANOSPHERE American Matriarchalism in the Early Twenty-First Century -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Introduction: 2017: A last trip west -- 2013. Sioux Falls, South Dakota ; Rapid City, South Dakota ; Holland, Michigan ; Burlington, Vermont ; Eastport, Maine -- 2014. Greenville, South Carolina ; St Marys, Georgia ; Columbus, Mississippi ; Caddo Lake, Louisiana-Texas ; In the air ; Columbus, Ohio ; Louisville, Kentucky ; Allentown, Pennsylvania ; In the air ; Duluth, Minnesota ; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Charleston, West Virginia -- 2015. In the air ; Guymon, Oklahoma ; Ajo, Arizona ; San Bernardina, California ; Riverside, California ; Redlands, California ; Fresno, California ; Winters, California ; Bend, Oregon ; Redmond and Prineville, Oregon ; Chester, Montana ; The American Prairie Reserve, Montana -- 2016. Dodge City, Kansas ; Garden City and Spearville, Kansas ; Erie, Pennsylvania -- What we saw and what we learned -- 10 1/2 signs of civic success.

Introduction: not to be forgotten: the importance of protests and riots -- Same as it ever was -- Vocal citizens -- At war with war -- Those who toil (workers' rights) -- The melting pot (race) -- A struggle through all of history (gender and sexual orientation) -- Epilogue: history repeating? (riot, uprisings, and rebellions)

Traditional public policy toward the family, the authors of this book argue, has produced an array of fragmented mechanical programs in response to specific, perceived "dysfunctions" in family performance. Policy has been biased by a restrictive perception that families unlike the nuclear, two-parent household are either ailing or aberrant. In response to these observations, the authors portray the family as a natural, ongoing, and dynamically adaptive element of Western civilization. They suggest that legislators and policy analysts should view the household as a tangible social and economic asset and an appropriate technology with which a number of tasks (such as child care, education, health, disability and unemployment insurance, social security, and the welfare of the aged) now performed by more complex and costly formal institutions may be better accomplished.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE. THE 2016 WAKE-UP CALL -- INTRODUCTION. THE POLITIQUAKE THAT IS RESHAPING AMERICAN POLITICS -- CHAPTER 1. NATIONAL IDENTITY: THE EXPANDING DIVIDE IN OUR NATION'S SPLIT PERSONALITY -- CHAPTER 2. DEMOGRAPHICS: THE CURRENT AND EMERGING STATUS OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC TENSIONS -- CHAPTER 3. ISSUES: THE IMPORTANCE OF POLICY AND PRINCIPLES -- CHAPTER 4. EMPOWERMENT: THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF OUR POLITICAL PROCESS -- CHAPTER 5. MEDIA: THE BATTLE FOR TRUTH AND FACTS -- CHAPTER 6. CONDUCT: THE ERA OF INCREASED TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY -- CHAPTER 7. GLOBAL ECONOMY: THE EVOLVING CONCERNS OVER TRADE AND GLOBALIZATION -- CHAPTER 8. FEDERALISM: THE TENSION BETWEEN FEDERAL AND STATE AUTHORITY -- CHAPTER 9. BIPARTISANSHIP: THE CONCURRENT RISE OF PARTISANSHIP AND BIPARTISANSHIP -- CHAPTER 10. VOTER SHIFTS: EXPOSURE OF THE REAL TRUMP AND THE IMPACT ON KEY TRUMP VOTERS -- AFTERWORD. A MESSAGE TO FELLOW PATRIOTS WHO SUPPORT TRUMP -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- LIST OF TERMS AND ENTITIES.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared "the government of cities" to be "the one conspicuous failure of the United States." During the following two decades, urban reformers would repeat Bryce's words with ritualistic regularity; nearly a century later, his comment continues to set the tone for most assessments of nineteenth-century city government. Yet by the end of the century, as Jon Teaford argues in this important reappraisal, American cities boasted the most abundant water supplies, brightest street lights, grandest parks, largest public libraries, and most efficient systems of transportation in the world. Far from being a "conspicuous failure," municipal governments of the late nineteenth century had successfully met challenges of an unprecedented magnitude and complexity. The Unheralded Triumph draws together the histories of the most important cities of the Gilded Age--especially New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Baltimore--to chart the expansion of services and the improvement of urban environments between 1870 and 1900. It examines the ways in which cities were transformed, in a period of rapid population growth and increased social unrest, into places suitable for living. Teaford demonstrates how, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, municipal governments adapted to societal change with the aid of generally compliant state legislatures. These were the years that saw the professionalization of city government and the political accommodation of the diverse ethnic, economic, and social elements that compose America's heterogeneous urban society. Teaford acknowledges that the expansion of urban services dangerously strained city budgets and that graft, embezzlement, overcharging, and payroll-padding presented serious problems throughout the period. The dissatisfaction with city governments arose, however, not so much from any failure to achieve concrete results as from the conflicts between those hostile groups accommodated within the newly created system: "For persons of principle and gentlemen who prized honor, it seemed a failure yet American municipal government left as a legacy such achievements as Central Park, the new Croton Aqueduct, and the Brooklyn Bridge, monuments of public enterprise that offered new pleasures and conveniences for millions of urban citizens."

This extensive collection of primary documents examines the history of climate science; various policy prescriptions for addressing the effects of climate change; political fault lines with respect to international efforts to address global warming; claims regarding the influence of industry groups and environmental "radicals" on climate policy and science; and the impact of climate change on other policy areas such as public health, energy, economic development, and wilderness conservation. The set includes excerpts from important scientific papers and government reports, political speeches from presidents and other influential lawmakers, perspectives from environmental activists and conservative think-tanks, editorial essays from leading media figures, provisions of major laws, and more. Together, these documents provide a broad range of perspectives, from scientific fields as well as from political and ideological standpoints that have emerged in response to the debate surrounding climate change. They offer readers a greater understanding of the arguments not only of lawmakers, activists, and scientists leading efforts to fight, mitigate, and adapt to climate change but also of those skeptical of climate change