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UNINA9910450114203321 |
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Autore |
Erickson John R. <1943-> |
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Titolo |
Prairie gothic [[electronic resource] ] : the story of a West Texas family / / John R. Erickson |
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Denton, Tex., : University of North Texas Press, c2005 |
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1-280-73097-8 |
9786610730971 |
1-57441-400-3 |
1-4337-1030-7 |
1-4237-9794-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Collana |
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Frances B. Vick series ; ; no. 3 |
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Novelists, American - 20th century - Family relationships |
Novelists, American - 20th century |
Rural families - Texas, West |
Electronic books. |
Texas, West Social life and customs |
Texas, West Biography |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Foreword; Preface; Chapter One: Anna Beth; Chapter Two: The Visit; Chapter Three: The Quakers; Chapter Four: Martha Sherman; Chapter Five: Cynthia Ann; Chapter Six: Loose Ends; Chapter Seven: J. Evetts Haley; Chapter Eight: John Graves; Chapter Nine: Joe Sherman; Chapter Ten: Max Coleman Remembers; Chapter Eleven: The Sherman Family; Chapter Twelve: Rachel and George Singer; Chapter Thirteen: The End of the Quaker Dream; Chapter Fourteen: Gaines County; Chapter Fifteen: Mable; Chapter Sixteen: Joe Sherman's Death; Chapter Seventeen: The Currys; Chapter Eighteen: Tom Ross |
Chapter Nineteen: Milt GoodChapter Twenty: Roger Sherman; Chapter Twenty-one: Roy, Burt, and Olive; Chapter Twenty-two: Decline; Chapter Twenty-three: Grandmother's Funeral; Chapter Twenty-four: |
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And Then There Was One; Chapter Twenty-five: Afterthoughts; References; Index |
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A book on Texas lore. Tells the story of people in the context of a specific place, the author creates a blend of family and regional history This book includes his encounters with famous Texas writers. Excerpts from journals, letters, and other original sources enrich the narrative. |
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UNINA9910788595203321 |
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Autore |
Chappell Marisa |
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The war on welfare [[electronic resource] ] : family, poverty, and politics in modern America / / Marisa Chappell |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010 |
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1-283-89010-0 |
0-8122-0156-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Politics and culture in modern America |
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Aid to families with dependent children programs - United States - History - 20th century |
Poor women - Government policy - United States |
Public welfare - United States - History - 20th century |
Welfare recipients - Employment - United States |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Reconstructing the Black Family: The Liberal Antipoverty Coalition in the 1960's -- Chapter 2. Legislating the Male-Breadwinner Family: The Family Assistance Plan -- Chapter 3. Building a New Majority: Welfare and Economic Justice in the 1970's -- Chapter 4. Debating the Family Wage: Welfare Reform in the Carter Administration -- Chapter 5. Relinquishing Responsibility for Poor Families: Reagan's Family Wage for the Wealthy -- Conclusion: Beyond the Family Wage -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Why did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the |
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United States saw the welfare reforms of 1996 as the inevitable result of twelve years of conservative retrenchment in American social policy, but there is evidence that the seeds of this change were sown long before the Reagan Revolution-and not necessarily by the Right. The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America traces what Bill Clinton famously called "the end of welfare as we know it" to the grassroots of the War on Poverty thirty years earlier. Marshaling a broad variety of sources, historian Marisa Chappell provides a fresh look at the national debate about poverty, welfare, and economic rights from the 1960's through the mid-1990's. In Chappell's telling, we experience the debate over welfare from multiple perspectives, including those of conservatives of several types, liberal antipoverty experts, national liberal organizations, labor, government officials, feminists of various persuasions, and poor women themselves. During the Johnson and Nixon administrations, deindustrialization, stagnating wages, and widening economic inequality pushed growing numbers of wives and mothers into the workforce. Yet labor unions, antipoverty activists, and moderate liberal groups fought to extend the fading promise of the family wage to poor African Americans families through massive federal investment in full employment and income support for male breadwinners. In doing so, however, these organizations condemned programs like Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) for supposedly discouraging marriage and breaking up families. Ironically their arguments paved the way for increasingly successful right-wing attacks on both "welfare" and the War on Poverty itself. |
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