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

Chappies

“But I saw a man yesterday who knows a fellow who had it from a chappie that said that Urquhart had been dipping himself a bit recklessly off the deep end.” —Freddy Arbuthnot
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison

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

Hugo on Genius

“Tear down theory, poetic systems… No more rules, no more models… Genius conjures up rather than learns… ” —Victor Hugo
César Graña, Bohemian versus Bourgeois

Education

“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State

Faith & Purpose

“When we began first to preach these things, the people appeared as awakened from the sleep of ages—they seemed to see for the first time that they were responsible beings...”
Finke, Stark, The Churching of America, 1776-1990

Conversion

“When we received Christ,” Phil added, “all of a sudden we now had a rule book to go by, and when we had problems the preacher was right there to give us the answers.”
James M. Ault, Jr., Spirit and Flesh

Postmodernism

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ’merely relative’, is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy

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

China and Christianity

At first, we thought [the power of the West] was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity.
David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing

Religion, Property, and Family

But the only religions that have survived are those which support property and the family. Thus the outlook for communism, which is both anti-property and anti-family, (and also anti-religion), is not promising.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit

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

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