Steven L. Piott

Americans in Dissent

Thirteen Influential Social Critics of the Nineteenth Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Americans in Dissent is designed as a collection of biographical essays written for general readers and undergraduates that focuses on the topic of American dissent during the period from 1830 to 1890.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780739192481
• ISBN-10: 0739192485
• Artikelnr.: 41311763

Autorenporträt

Steven L. Piott is a professor of history at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Introduction 1. Sarah G. Bagley: Labor Activist 2. Thomas
Skidmore and George Henry Evans: Agrarians 3. William H. Sylvis: Labor
Protagonist 4. Oliver Hudson Kelley: Patron of Husbandry 5. George Perkins
Marsh: Environmental Philosopher 6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Radical
Feminist 7. Frances Willard: Pragmatic Feminist 8. Helen Hunt Jackson:
Indian Rights Advocate 9. T. Thomas Fortune: Race Leader 10. Thomas Nast:
Muckraking Cartoonist 11. Jacob Riis: Urban Reformer 12. Edward Bellamy:
Utopian Socialist Epilogue