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edited by Steven L. PiottPublication Details
BookRowman & Littlefield Publishers2006Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E663 .A47 2006 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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In this new work, historian Steven Piott explores the fascinating and provocative lives of twelve influential American reformers placed in the historical context of the Gilded Age, Populist and Progressive eras. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- Populism — United States
- Reformers — United States — Biography
- Social reformers — United States — Biography
- Political activists — United States — Biography
- Social change — United States — History
- United States — History — 1865-1921 — Biography
- United States — Social conditions — 1865-1918
- United States — Politics and government — 1865-1933
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Contents
- Lester Frank Ward and reform Darwinism
- Henry George’s democratic economics
- Charles W. Macune’s cooperative vision
- Ida B. Well’s crusade against racism
- Walter Rauschenbusch and the social gospel
- Jane Addams and the settlement house idea
- Florence Kelley’s quest for humane labor legislation
- Louis Brandeis, the law, and social change
- Lincoln Steffens muckrakes the business of politics
- Harvey W. Wiley and the ethics of pure food and drugs
- John Randolph Haynes and direct democracy
- Alice Paul and the campaign for human rights
ISBN
- 0742527638
- 9780742527638
- 074252762x
- 9780742527621
- 074252762x
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