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The suffragents : how women used men to get the vote /
"The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York's most powerful men formed the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation of the Lea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany, NY :
Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Excelsior editions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York's most powerful men formed the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation of the League and the men who instigated it to involve themselves with the suffrage campaign, what they did at the behest of the movement's female leadership and why. She details the National American Woman Suffrage Association's strategic decision to accept their organized help and then to deploy these influential new allies as suffrage foot soldiers, a role they accepted with uncommon grace"--Page [4] of cover. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 371 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781438466316 1438466315 |