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Author Piott, Steven L.

Title American reformers, 1870-1920 : progressives in word and deed / Steven L. Piott.

Imprint Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  303.4840922 P659a 2006    ---  Available
Description vii, 227 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject United States -- History -- 1865-1921 -- Biography.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933.
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.
ISBN 0742527638 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780742527638 (pbk. : alk. paper)
074252762X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780742527621 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 2269677
YDXCP 2269678
AU@ 000028579470

 
    
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