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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Social reformers"”.
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Robber Barons and Humbuggers: The Rise of Philanthropic Museums in Nineteenth-Century New York
… of wealthy benefactors. At the same time, social reformers, mostly Protestant and middle or upper-class, were combating the vice and poverty that they saw in the diversifying city with a moralizing rhetoric of character building. This paper will show that these two movements, the rise of …
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Boston's settlement housing: social reform in an industrial city
… economy (namely, extensive poverty and increased social segregation) or the rise of big cities. As a result, progressive social reformers developed new methods of helping poor, largely immigrant communities adjust to a rapidly changing, increasingly complex urban society. One such effort was the …
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Perilous pop: ragtime, jazz and progressive social thought in the early 20th Century Press, 1900-1930.
… assumptions and contradictions of progressive social thought. Through close textual analysis, the author illustrates the ways in which musical spaces, musical sounds, and dance practices, operated as the fulcrum for debates about how to reconstitute an "ideal" public in the wake of industrial …
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To Plow a Lonely Furrow: Indigenismo and Mapuche Politics in Chile, 1920-1960
… In that period, politicians, academics and social reformers across the Americas were questioning how to incorporate indigenous populations into modern national states. While many historical accounts of similar phenomena in other countries have drawn categorical distinctions between …
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"A Right to be Safely Born": The Quest for Health Justice for American Mothers and Children, 1890-1965
… networks of progressive and liberal social policy advocates. Beginning in the settlement houses of the 1890s, a cadre of female bureaucrats, social reformers, and their political allies developed an array of federally based programs. Conservative stakeholders--among them …
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Saving the Children: Discourses of Race, Nation, and Citizenship in America
… of Anglo-Saxon cultural superiority, for many social reformers such as Jacob Riis and Jane Addams, was ensuring that all of the nation's children and future citizens received care and attention. This dissertation analyzes the work of the following four significant figures to excavate …
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The “Red Harlot of Infidelity”: The life and works of Frances Wright
… Wright envisioned herself among important social reformers—past, present, and future and predicted the eventual triumph of the causes for which she fought. She dreamed of the “wiser and happier generations to come, who shall write my name and preserve my memory among those of the champions …
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At Home in the World: Jawaharlal Nehru and Global Anti-Imperialism
… America; as well as North American and European social reformers concerned with working class and racial equality. A history of Nehru and his League connections underscores the significance of the international terrain in which Indian nationalists contested empire. In this project I argue that …
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Lucretia Coffin Mott: Early Leader in the Struggle for Women's Rights Within the Society of Friends and the Anti-Slavery Movement
… Coffin Mott (1793-1880) was one of the greatest social reformers of the nineteenth century. Her activism placed her at the forefront of the Women’s Rights Movement. She devoted herself to the crusade for equality in all areas including gender, religion, and race. As a Quaker minister in the early …
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Indispensable Outcasts: Seasonal Laborers and Community in the Upper Midwest, 1880--1930
… and records of government investigations. Social reformers studied labor market structures, interviewed laborers, and frequently lived undercover as ""workers."" Reformers discussed include Nels Anderson, Carleton Parker, Whiting Williams, Josiah Flynt, Walter Wyckoff, and Peter Speek of …
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“The least of these”: black club women and the social gospel
<p>Defined by a focus on social reform and Christian ethics, the social gospel emerged immediately after the Civil War when Christian leaders and organizations promulgated a religious ethic concerned with groups bearing low social standings, especially the working class. White male pastors led and …
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Piety and politics: Baptist social reform in America, 1770-1860
… examines the relationship between Baptists and social reform from 1770 through 1860. Chapter one examines two explanations to the social movements of this period. Attention is given to the tension between personal piety and social activism inherent in Baptist life. Chapter two explores the most …
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Hobohemia on the plains: labor, leisure, and industrial discipline in Kansas City, 1873-1915
… and wintered in Kansas City represented a social illness requiring municipal action. At the same time, the syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) eyed the same group of itinerant workers as a population ripe for organization. Locally, these movements culminated in the formation …
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Building protestant modernism : John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the architecture of an American internationalism (1919-1939)
… of architects, theologians, archaeologists, and social reformers attempted to harmonize each of their buildings within its immediate geopolitical and aesthetic site. I show how Rockefeller's "re-Orientation" of Christianity (and America) coheres these eclectic, geographically dispersed buildings …
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Women and education : social feminism and intellectual emancipation in England and America
Social Feminism, as influenced by the Enlightenment, manifested itself between 1780 and 1860. An important aspect of social feminism was intellectual emancipation for women. Such intellectual emancipation came about through the blending of ideas emanating from prominent cultural and social centers …
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The Forgotten Fight: Waging War on Poverty in New York City, 1945-1980
… on the discourse among grassroots activists, social reformers, and city officials, I argue that the War on Poverty has been misunderstood by scholars inattentive to the rich exchange of ideas that occurred at street level. I show how local policy innovations flowed upward and influenced elites …
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Plockhoy and his writings : the study of a social reformer
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, 1950
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Social reform in the burned-over district: Rochester, New York as a test case, 1830-1854
<p>In the decades following 1820, a variety of social reform crusades swept western New York. Although none of these crusades was peculiar to New York, this region somehow seemed more receptive to them than any other section of the country. The region's responsiveness to reform movements and …
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The rise and fall of fraternal methods of social insurance : a case study of the Independent Order of Oddfellows of British Columbia sickness insurance, 1874-1951
… welfare state emphasize that traditional social welfare institutions were always inadequate and it took the Depression to demonstrate the need for better, more comprehensive arrangements. Beyond the enlightening influence of the Depression, the rise of current welfare state institutions is …
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Cultural causes of the nineteenth-century fertility decline : a study of three Yorkshire towns
… working class of the three towns, and reports of social conditions by, for example, doctors and social reformers. These materials are combined with quantitative evidence from the registration of births, Census Reports, Parliamentary Papers, and the Census Enumerators’ Books. This thesis is …
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