Timeline for How does Upton Sinclair's The Jungle contribute to Historiography?
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| Apr 24, 2016 at 13:46 | history | edited | Tom Au | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 22, 2016 at 20:50 | comment | added | Tom Au | @SamanthaHutto: To use Dukakis' framework, I link "politics" to ideology, and "regulation" to "competence." tt's true that regulation has a political component, but this was the province of more "centrist" political policy makers. Sinclair was more of an "extremist," that is "socialist" rather than liberal or even "progressive." In this regard, his book failed to win many converts to socialism, but instead, became a rallying point for centrist "good government" types. | |
| Apr 22, 2016 at 17:56 | comment | added | Samantha Hutto | How are you defining politics, and regulation? Given the Platonic definition of politics, then Sinclair's book had a profound impact on not only government politics (like enacting the FDA), but also public politics. He shoved the atrocities of the blue collar working conditions in the bourgeois life. The question asks weather The Jungle contributed to how people wrote history. Marx's Communist Manifesto was published about 40 years earlier which had a massive impact in historiography. Did Sinclair's work contribute to a Marxist understanding of history? If so, how did it contribute? | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 14:30 | history | edited | Tom Au | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 21, 2016 at 14:18 | history | answered | Tom Au | CC BY-SA 3.0 |