Reform in America : the continuing frontier / / Robert H. Walker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820248803321
• Autore: Walker Robert Harris <1924->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1985; ©1985
• ISBN: 0-8131-8670-6; 0-8131-6489-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.4/84/0973
• Soggetti: Social change; Social reformers - United States - History; Social action - United States - History; United States Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: p. 258-262.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Encounter 1: Jack London Meets London; INTRODUCTION; Method; Taxonomy; Organization; Encounter 2: Connecticut Meets Abraham Bishop; Part One/Mode I: POLITICO-ECONOMIC REFORM; 1. THE MAINSTREAM AND THE POLITICS OF MONEY; Origins of Mode; The Money Question; 2. THE MAINSTREAM ANALYZED; Reform Eras Reconsidered; Characteristics of Politico-economic Reform; Continuity and the Mainstream; Encounter 3: Garrison Meets Walker; Part Two/Mode II: SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR ALL; 3. OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM: REFORM CONSTANTS; Actors; Forms; Arguments; 4. THE DOUBLE CYCLE: CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIESThe Double Cycle and American Blacks; The Double Cycle and Woman's Rights; Civil Liberties; Encounter 4: Wabash College Meets Lizzie Boynton; Part Three/Mode III: PLANNERS AND DREAMERS; 5. COMMUNES AND LITERARY UTOPIAS; Antebellum Communes; Modern Communes; Literary Utopias; 6. TWENTIETH-CENTURY MODELS; Science Fiction; World Government; Visionary Builders and Planners; Persistence of the Utopian Spirit; Encounter 5: California Meets Its Makers; CONCLUSION; 7. PUTTING IT TOGETHER; Composite Narrative; Comparative Traits; ; Actors; Forms; DynamicsArguments; Tables; Comparison of Modes; 8. PERFORMANCE AND VALUES: THE MEANING OF REFORM; Measures of Social Change; Reform and American Values; Reform and American Values; A Final Word; Encounter 6: Gurley Flynn Meets the Midnight ACLU; Notes; Appendix: A Chronology of the Money Question; Bibliographical Note; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: ""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