Reform in America : The Continuing Frontier /

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""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...

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Autor principal: Walker, Robert Harris, 1924-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social reformers.
Social conditions.
Social change.
Social action.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civics & Citizenship.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Reformateurs sociaux > États-Unis > Histoire.
Action sociale > États-Unis > Histoire.
Social reformers > United States > History.
Social change > Case studies.
Social action > United States > History.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
United States > Social conditions.
History.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:""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 priorities, Walker seeks in Reform in America to organize the reform experience in a new way, so that its collective patterns can be seen. Reform in America identifies three principal streams of reform advocacy in American history. Politico-economic issues, the mainstream of reform, are exemplified by a detailed study of the politics of money from 1.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9780813164892

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