Civic passions: seven who launched progressive America (and what they teach us)
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tichi, Cecelia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2009
Subjects:
Online Access:FAW01
FAW02
Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-373) and index
Two Gilded Ages : a preface -- Danger and opportunity : an introduction -- Alice Hamilton, M.D. : the dangerous trades -- John R. Commons : the Pittsburgh survey -- Julia Lathrop : justice, not pity -- Florence Kelley : the wages of work -- Louis D. Brandeis : citizen -- Walter Rauschenbusch : the social gospel -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett : lynching in all its phases -- Progressive encore? A postscript
Tichi examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history, starting from the late 19th century, when respected voices warned that America was on the brink of collapse. She brings 7 iconoclastic individuals from the Gilded Age back to life to show how citizen-activists can engage the problems of the age in imaginative ways. This is a provocative and powerfully written social history, a collection of minibiographies, and a user's manual on how a generation of social reformers can turn peril into progress with fresh, workable ideas
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 382 pages)
ISBN:0807898694
9780807898697

There is no print copy available.

Interlibrary loan Place Request Caution: Not in THWS collection! Get full text