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Reform in America : the continuing frontier /
""In discussing slavery and woman's rights, social security and the graduated income tax, "" writes Robert Walker, ""the reformers have defined and redefined America."" Recognizing in the history of reform a prime source for the discovery of cultural prio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Encounter 1: Jack London Meets London; INTRODUCTION; Method; Taxonomy; Organization; Encounter 2: Connecticut Meets Abraham Bishop; Part One/Mode I: POLITICO-ECONOMIC REFORM; 1. THE MAINSTREAM AND THE POLITICS OF MONEY; Origins of Mode; The Money Question; 2. THE MAINSTREAM ANALYZED; Reform Eras Reconsidered; Characteristics of Politico-economic Reform; Continuity and the Mainstream; Encounter 3: Garrison Meets Walker; Part Two/Mode II: SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR ALL; 3. OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM: REFORM CONSTANTS; Actors; Forms; Arguments.
- 4. THE DOUBLE CYCLE: CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIESThe Double Cycle and American Blacks; The Double Cycle and Woman's Rights; Civil Liberties; Encounter 4: Wabash College Meets Lizzie Boynton; Part Three/Mode III: PLANNERS AND DREAMERS; 5. COMMUNES AND LITERARY UTOPIAS; Antebellum Communes; Modern Communes; Literary Utopias; 6. TWENTIETH-CENTURY MODELS; Science Fiction; World Government; Visionary Builders and Planners; Persistence of the Utopian Spirit; Encounter 5: California Meets Its Makers; CONCLUSION; 7. PUTTING IT TOGETHER; Composite Narrative; Comparative Traits; Actors; Forms.
- DynamicsArguments; Tables; Comparison of Modes; 8. PERFORMANCE AND VALUES: THE MEANING OF REFORM; Measures of Social Change; Reform and American Values; Reform and American Values; A Final Word; Encounter 6: Gurley Flynn Meets the Midnight ACLU; Notes; Appendix: A Chronology of the Money Question; Bibliographical Note; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.