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Civic passions [[electronic resource] ] : seven who launched progressive America (and what they teach us) / / Cecelia Tichi



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Autore: Tichi Cecelia <1942-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Civic passions [[electronic resource] ] : seven who launched progressive America (and what they teach us) / / Cecelia Tichi Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (401 p.)
Disciplina: 324.2732/7
Soggetto topico: Progressivism (United States politics)
Political activists - United States
Social reformers - United States
Leadership - United States
Social problems - United States - History - 19th century
Social problems - United States - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: United States History 1865-1921 Biography
United States Politics and government 1865-1933
United States Social conditions 1865-1918
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: The dangerous trades -- The Pittsburgh survey -- Justice, not pity -- The wages of work -- Citizen -- The social gospel -- Lynching in all its phases -- Progressive encore? a postscript.
Sommario/riassunto: A gripping and inspiring book, Civic Passions examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that America was on the brink of collapse, Cecelia Tichi explores the wisdom of practical visionaries who were confronted with a series of social, political, and financial upheavals that, in certain respects, seem eerily similar to modern times. The United States--then, as now--was riddled with political corruption, financial panics, social disruption, labor strife, and bourgeois inertia. Dr
Titolo autorizzato: Civic passions  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4696-0538-4
0-8078-9869-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910455115603321
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