The refuge of affections : family and American reform politics, 1900-1920 /

The Progressives-those reformers responsible for the shape of many American institutions, from the Federal Reserve Board to the New School for Social Research-have always presented a mystery. What prompted middle-class citizens to support fundamental change in American life? Eric Rauchway shows that...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rauchway, Eric
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2001.
Series:Columbia studies in contemporary American history.
Subjects:
Social reformers > United States > Biography.
Families > United States.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Réformateurs sociaux > États-Unis > Biographies.
Familles > États-Unis.
Progressisme > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Families.
Social reformers.
Familie
Sozialreformer
Progressismus
Sociale verandering.
United States.
USA
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The Progressives-those reformers responsible for the shape of many American institutions, from the Federal Reserve Board to the New School for Social Research-have always presented a mystery. What prompted middle-class citizens to support fundamental change in American life? Eric Rauchway shows that like most of us, the reformers took their inspiration from their own lives-from the challenges of forming a family. Following the lives and careers of Charles and Mary Beard, Wesley Clair and Lucy Sprague Mitchell, and Willard and Dorothy Straight, the book moves from the plains of.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 237 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index.
ISBN:0231506163
9780231506168
0231121466
9780231121460
0231121474
9780231121477

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