Bibliography - Road to the Middle Class - by Christopher Chantrill

Bartholomew, James, 2006, The Welfare State We're In, Politico's Publishing
How the welfare state makes crime, education, families, and health care worse.

Beito, David T., 2000, From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State, University of North Carolina Press
How ordinary people built a sturdy social safety net in the 19th century

Coulson, Andrew J., 1999, Market Education, Transaction Publishers
How universal literacy was achieved before government education

De Soto, Hernando, 2000, The Mystery of Capital, Basic Books
How ordinary people in the United States wrote the law during the 19th century

Finke, Roger, and Stark, Rodney, 1992, The Churching of America, 1776-1990, Rutgers University Press
How the United States grew into a religious nation

Fogel, Robert William, 2000, The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism, University of Chicago Press
How progressives must act fast if they want to save the welfare state

Green, David G, ed., 1999, Before Beveridge: Welfare Before the Welfare State, Institute of Economic Affairs, London
How ordinary people built themselves a sturdy safety net before the welfare state

Hayek, F. A., 1973, Law Legislation and Liberty, Vol 1, University of Chicago Press
How to build a society based upon law

Kaestle, Carl F., 1983, Pillars of the Republic, Hill and Wang, New York
How we got our education system

Maine, Henry, 1972, Ancient Law, Everyman’s Library, London
How the movement of progressive peoples is from status to contract

Martin, David, 2002, Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish, Blackwell Publishers
How Pentecostalism is spreading across the world

Skocpol, Theda, 2003, Diminished Democracy, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman
How the US used to thrive under membership associations and could do again

Stevenson, David, 1990, The Origins of Freemasonry, Cambridge University Press
How modern freemasonry got started in Scotland

Tooley, James, 2000, Reclaiming Education, Cassell
How only a market in education will provide opportunity for the poor

Tooley, James, 2003, The Miseducation of Women, Ivan R. Dee
How the feminists wrecked education for boys and for girls

West, E.G., 1994, Education and the State, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis
How education was doing fine before the government muscled in

Zane, John Maxcy, 1998, The Story of Law, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis
How law developed from early times down to the present

Other RMC Books

Ahlstrom, S.E., 1972, A religious history of the American people, Yale UP

Anbinder, Tyler, 2001, Five Points, The Free Press, New York

Ankerberg, John, and Weldon, John, 1998, Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs, Harvest House, Eugene, Oregon

Armstrong, Karen, 2000, The Battle for God., Knopf

Armstrong, Karen, 1994, A History of God, Ballantine Books

Barzun, Jacques, 2000, From Dawn to Decadence, Harper/Collins, New York

Beck, Don Edward, and Cowan, Christopher C, 1996, Spiral Dynamics, Blackwell

Best, Geoffrey, 1979, Mid-Victorian Britain 1851-75, Fontana Press, London

Bethell, Tom, 1998, The Noblest Triumph, St. Martin’s Griffin, New York

Brace, C.L., 1880, The Dangerous classes of New York, Adamant

Brands, H.W., 2000, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Doubleday, New York

Bretall, Robert, 1973, A Kierkegaard Anthology, Princeton University Press

Broughton, John M. et al, 1982, The Cognitive-developmental Psychology of James Mark Baldwin, Ablex (SA BF311.C5513)

Burke, James, 1985, The Day The Universe Changed, Little Brown, Boston

Bushman, C.L., and R.L., 1999, Mormons in America, Oxford University Press, New York

Campbell, Joseph, 1968, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Princeton University Press

Carnes, Tony, 2001/4/13, “The Pentecostal City”, The Wall Street Journal

Carter, Stephen L., 2001, God’s Name in Vain, Basic Books

Cleary, Edward L. et al., 1997, Power, Politics, and Pentecostals in Latin America, Westview

Combe, Victoria, 2001/12/26, “Curate's course feeds a spiritual hunger”, The Daily Telegraph

Cornford, Francis, 1945, The Republic of Plato, Oxford University Press

Cross, Whitney, 1950, The Burned-over District, Cornell UP

Crunden, R.M., 1982, Ministers of Reform: the Progressives’ Achievement in American civilization, 1889 - 1920, Basic

Dalrymple, Theodore, 2001, Life at the Bottom,, Ivan R. Dee, Chicago

Dobb, C. B., 1991, Sociology: An Introduction,, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Fort Worth

Eksteins, Modris, 1989, Rites of Spring, Anchor Books

Eliot, Charles W., 1909, The Religion of the Future, Kessinger

Febvre, Lucien, 1975, The Coming of the Book,

Fletcher, Richard, 1999, The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity, University of California Press

Foster, C.I., 1960, An errand of mercy, The evangelical united front, 1790-1837,, North Carolina UP

Friedan, Betty, 1963, The Feminine Mystique,

Garrard-Burnett, Virginia, and Stoll, David, 1993, Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America,

Gebser, Jean, 1984, The Everpresent Origin, Ohio University Press

Gould, Philip, 1999, The Unfinished Revolution, Abacus

Graña, César, 1964, Bohemian versus Bourgeois, Basic Books (O/S PQ292.G7)

Harris, Lee, 2004, Civilization and Its Enemies, Free Press

Hofstadter, Richard, 1955, The Age of Reform, Vintage Books, New York

Hofstadter, Richard, 1963, Anti-intellectualism in American Life,

Hunt, Morton, 1993, The Story of Psychology, Doubleday, New York

Hunter, James Davison, 1991, Culture Wars, Basic Books, New York

Johnson, Paul, 1979, A History of Christianity, Simon & Schuster

Josephson, Matthew, 1962, The Robber Barons, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Kaufmann, Walter, 1992, Basic Writings of Nietzsche, Modern Library, New York

Lane, Frederick C., 1973, Venice A Maritime Republic, Johns Hopkins University Press

Lane, Frederick C., 1992, Venetian Ships and Shipbuilders of the Renaissance, Johns Hopkins University Press

Loevinger, Jane, 1976, Ego Development, , Jossey-Bass, San Francisco (SA BF175.L63)

Martin, David, 1990, Tongues of Fire, Blackwell Publishers

Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich, 1992, The Communist Manifesto,, Bantam Books, New York

McLoughlin, William G., 1978, Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform, University of Chicago Press

Meltzer, Milton, 1971, Slavery, from the rise of western civilization to the Renaissance,, Cowles, New York (O HT863.M37)

Meltzer, Milton,, 19xx,, Slavery, A World History,

Morris, William, 19xx, Art and Socialism,

Nigosian, S.A., 1993, The Zoroastrian Faith, , McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal

Odom, William E., 1998, The Collapse of the Soviet Military, Yale University Press

Peterson, Jesse Lee, 2000, From Rage to Responsibility, Continuum International Publishing Group

Piven, Frances Fox, Cloward, Richard A, 1972, Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, Vintage Books, New York

Riis, Jacob A., 1997, How the Other Half Lives,, Penguin Classics, New York

Ryken, Leland, 1990, Worldly Saints, Zondervan

Shaw, Bernard, ed., 1889, Fabian Essays in Socialism, Dolphin Books

Smith, Brian H., 1998, Religious Politics in Latin America: Pentecostal vs. Catholic,

Smith, Huston, 1991, The World’s Religions, HarperSanFrancisco, New York

Sowell, Thomas, 1998, Conquests and Cultures, Basic Books, New York

Stark, Rodney, 2004, Exploring the Religious Life, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

Stark, Rodney, and Bainbridge, William Sims, 1996, A Theory of Religion,

Stark, Rodney, and Bainbridge, William Sims, 1985, The Future of Religion, University of California Press

Stark, Rodney, and Finke, Roger, 2000, Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion, University of California Press, Berkeley

Stern, William J, 1997, “How Dagger John Saved New York’s Irish”, City Journal, Manhattan Institute

Stevenson, George M, 1952, The Puritan Heritage, Macmillan, New York

Stoll, David, 1990, Is Latin America Turning Protestant?, UC Press, Berkeley

Sweet, W., 1952, Religion in the development of American culture 1764-1840, Scribner

Taylor, Charles, 1992, Sources of the Self, Harvard UP
How the modern notion of the self emerged in the west

Thirsk, J, ed., 1967, The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Cambridge University Press, (SA HD593.A62)

Thoreau, Henry David, 1997, Walden, World’s Classics

Webster, Donovan, 2002/01, “China’s Unknown Gobi”, National Geographic

Wilson, A.N., 1999, God’s Funeral, W.W. Norton

Wilson, August, 2003, Jitney, Overlook Press

Wood, Gordon S., 1992, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Knopf

Woodson, Robert L., 1998, The Triumphs of Joseph, The Free Press

TAGS

Civil Society

“Civil Society”—a complex welter of intermediate institutions, including businesses, voluntary associations, educational institutions, clubs, unions, media, charities, and churches—builds, in turn, on the family, the primary instrument by which people are socialized into their culture and given the skills that allow them to live in broader society and through which the values and knowledge of that society are transmitted across the generations.
Francis Fukuyama, Trust

What Liberals Think About Conservatives

[W]hen I asked a liberal longtime editor I know with a mainstream [publishing] house for a candid, shorthand version of the assumptions she and her colleagues make about conservatives, she didn't hesitate. “Racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-choice fascists,” she offered, smiling but meaning it.
Harry Stein, I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican

Liberal Coercion

[T]he Liberal, and still more the subspecies Radical... more than any other in these latter days seems under the impression that so long as he has a good end in view he is warranted in exercising over men all the coercion he is able[.]
Herbert Spencer, The Man Versus the State

Moral Imperatives of Modern Culture

These emerge out of long-standing moral notions of freedom, benevolence, and the affirmation of ordinary life... I have been sketching a schematic map... [of] the moral sources [of these notions]... the original theistic grounding for these standards... a naturalism of disengaged reason, which in our day takes scientistic forms, and a third family of views which finds its sources in Romantic expressivism, or in one of the modernist successor visions.
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self

US Life in 1842

Families helped each other putting up homes and barns. Together, they built churches, schools, and common civic buildings. They collaborated to build roads and bridges. They took pride in being free persons, independent, and self-reliant; but the texture of their lives was cooperative and fraternal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism

Society and State

For [the left] there is only the state and the individual, nothing in between. No family to rely on, no friend to depend on, no community to call on. No neighbourhood to grow in, no faith to share in, no charities to work in. No-one but the Minister, nowhere but Whitehall, no such thing as society - just them, and their laws, and their rules, and their arrogance.
David Cameron, Conference Speech 2008

Faith and Politics

As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the principal focus of her interventions in the public arena is the protection and promotion of the dignity of the person, and she is thereby consciously drawing particular attention to principles which are not negotiable... [1.] protection of life in all its stages, from the first moment of conception until natural death; [2.] recognition and promotion of the natural structure of the family... [3.] the protection of the right of parents to educate their children.
Pope Benedict XVI, Speech to European Peoples Party, 2006

Never Trust Experts

No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
Lord Salisbury, “Letter to Lord Lytton”

Conservatism's Holy Grail

What distinguishes true Conservatism from the rest, and from the Blair project, is the belief in more personal freedom and more market freedom, along with less state intervention... The true Third Way is the Holy Grail of Tory politics today - compassion and community without compulsion.
Minette Marrin, The Daily Telegraph

Class War

In England there were always two sharply opposed middle classes, the academic middle class and the commercial middle class. In the nineteenth century, the academic middle class won the battle for power and status... Then came the triumph of Margaret Thatcher... The academics lost their power and prestige and... have been gloomy ever since.
Freeman Dyson, “The Scientist as Rebel”

Government Expenditure

The Union publishes an exact return of the amount of its taxes; I can get copies of the budgets of the four and twenty component states; but who can tell me what the citizens spend in the administration of county and township?
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Conservatism

Conservatism is the philosophy of society. Its ethic is fraternity and its characteristic is authority — the non-coercive social persuasion which operates in a family or a community. It says ‘we should...’.
Danny Kruger, On Fraternity