04056nam 2200661 450 991082024880332120200520144314.00-8131-8670-60-8131-6489-3(CKB)3710000000334421(EBL)1915624(SSID)ssj0001436181(PQKBManifestationID)11919342(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001436181(PQKBWorkID)11435919(PQKB)11548552(OCoLC)897471719(MdBmJHUP)muse44651(Au-PeEL)EBL1915624(CaPaEBR)ebr11005537(CaONFJC)MIL691349(OCoLC)900344654(MiAaPQ)EBC1915624(EXLCZ)99371000000033442120150123h19851985 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReform in America the continuing frontier /Robert H. WalkerLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,1985.©19851 online resource (281 p.)Includes index.1-322-60067-8 0-8131-5530-4 Bibliography: p. 258-262.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; Arguments4. 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; FormsDynamicsArguments; 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""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 1Social changeCase studiesSocial reformersUnited StatesHistorySocial actionUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesSocial conditionsSocial changeSocial reformersHistory.Social actionHistory.303.4/84/0973Walker Robert Harris1924-216177MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820248803321Reform in America3990019UNINA