The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics, 1900–1920Columbia University Press, 29/03/2001 - 322 من الصفحات The Progressives—those reformers responsible for the shape of many American institutions, from the Federal Reserve Board to the New School for Social Research—have always presented a mystery. What prompted middle-class citizens to support fundamental change in American life? Eric Rauchway shows that like most of us, the reformers took their inspiration from their own lives—from the challenges of forming a family. |
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Dorothy Whitney and Willard Straight | |
Mary Ritter and Charles Beard | |
Lucy Sprague and Wesley Clair Mitchell | |
War and the Progressive Family | |
The Narrative of Progress versus the Logic of Events | |
Civilization or A Further Parable on the Narrative | |
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