Unsentimental Reformer : The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell /
If the poor are always with us, how we have perceived and treated them has changed like the seasons. Such was the massive and pitiless industrialization of the nation after the Civil War that Josephine Shaw Lowell (1843-1905) recoiled and sought a new way to approach poverty. She rationalized charit...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2013]
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Edición: | Reprint 2014 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Beginnings
- 2. First Heroes
- 3. Lights and Shadows
- 4. Charity Is Our Science
- 5. The Commissioner
- 6. Charity Organization
- 7. The Labor Question
- 8. The Useful Citizen
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index