American Reform and Reformers

A Biographical Dictionary
Herausgeber: Miller, Randall M.; Cimbala, Paul A.

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Produktbeschreibung

In entries such as Jane Addams and the Settlement House Movement, Booker T. Washington and Black Self-Help, and Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women, this dictionary provides in-depth examination of major American reformers and the movements they defined. With coverage extending from the early republic to today, the book considers abolitionism, women's rights, temperance, the social gospel, birth control, pacifism, civil rights, environmentalism, consumerism, and other controversial movements. Each entry combines biography with historical analysis to show the historical context and character of the movement and person. Individually, the entries provide modern, interpretive treatments of their subjects. Collectively, they reveal the direction and dynamics of American reform over two centuries. Emphasizing social reform over civic reform, the book gives special attention to reformers and reforms that have significantly altered the social order. Written by prominent scholars, the entries show the importance of personality and historical context in reform movements and the relationship between particular reforms and the temperament of an age. With full-bodied biographies of the reformers and their movements, a time-line on American reform, up-to-date interpretations and bibliographies, and a wide range of subjects, this book provides the most comprehensive and cogent view of American reform and reformers anywhere. It also provides the fullest treatment to date of post-World War II reform activity and personalities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1075g
• ISBN-13: 9780313288395
• ISBN-10: 0313288399
• Artikelnr.: 25564639

Autorenporträt

RANDALL M. MILLER is Professor of History and Director of American Studies at Saint Joseph's University. He is the author or editor of 16 books, including the award-winning Dear Master: Letters of a Slave Family (1978, rev. ed., 1990) and, with John David Smith, the award-winning Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery (Greenwood, 1988). PAUL A. CIMBALA is Associate Professor of History at Fordham University. He has published articles on slavery and Reconstruction and is completing a study of the Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction in Georgia. He is also working on a book on black musicians in the 19th-century rural South.

Inhaltsangabe

American Reform and Reformers: An Introduction by Randall M. Miller
Acknowledgments Jane Addams and the Settlement House Movement by Louise W.
Knight Jessie Daniel Ames and the White Women's Anti-Lynching Campaign by
Robert F. Martin Roger Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union by
Samuel Walker Catharine Beecher and Domestic Relations by Kathleen C.
Berkeley Charles Loring Brace and Children's Uplift by Eric C. Schneider
Earl Browder and American Communism by James G. Ryan César Chávez and
Migrant Workers by Richard Griswold del Castillo Barry Commoner and
Environmentalism by Douglas H. Strong Dorothy Day and the American Catholic
Worker Movement by Anne Klejment Eugene Victor Debs and Radical Labor
Reform by Scott Molloy John Dewey and Pragmatic Education by George Cotkin
Dorothea Dix and Mental Health Reform by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn W.E.B. Du
Bois, the NAACP, and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Cary D. Wintz Mary
Baker Eddy and Theological Reform by Mary Farrell Bednarowski Charles G.
Finney and the Evangelical Reform Impulse by Nancy A. Hardesty Betty
Friedan and the National Organization for Women by Barbara McGowan William
Lloyd Garrison and Abolitionism by Merton L. Dillon Henry George and Utopia
by Geoffrey Blodgett Washington Gladden and the Social Gospel by Jacob H.
Dorn Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor by Brian Greenberg
Sylvester Graham and Health Reform by Vincent J. Cirillo Martin Luther
King, Jr., and the Modern Civil Rights Movement by Ralph E. Luker Rachel
MacNair and Feminists for Life by Suzanne Schnittman Horace Mann and Common
School Reform by William W. Cutler III Russell Means and Native-American
Rights by Raymond Wilson Harvey Milk and Gay Rights by R. Lane Fenrich A.
J. Muste and Pacifism by Charles E. Chatfield Ralph Nader and Consumer
Politics by Martha May Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement by
Ellen Chesler Carl Schurz and Radical Reconstruction by Brooks D. Simpson
Joseph Smith, Mormonism, and Religious Communitarianism by Newell G.
Bringhurst Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Woman's Rights Movement by Ann D.
Gordon Norman M. Thomas and American Socialism by James C. Duram Booker T.
Washington and Black Self-Help by Loren Schweninger Tom Watson and Populism
by Barton C. Shaw Ida Wells-Barnett and the African-American Anti-Lynching
Campaign by Linda O. McMurry Harvey Washington Wiley and Pure Food Reform
by James Harvey Young Frances Willard and Temperance by Ian R. Tyrrell
Reform Chronology by Paul A. Cimbala Index