Book Description
Focuses on pre-Civil War reform movements and notable reformers.
Author : Ronald G. Walters
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809025574
Focuses on pre-Civil War reform movements and notable reformers.
Author : Arthur Meier Schlesinger (sr.)
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 1951
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Author : Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Publisher : New York : Atheneum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,57 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Reformers
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Author : Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Publisher :
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Reformers
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Author : Stephen F. Williams
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1594039542
Besides absolutists of the right (the tsar and his adherents) and left (Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks), the Russian political landscape in 1917 featured moderates seeking liberal reform and a rapid evolution towards a constitutional monarchy. Vasily Maklakov, a lawyer, legislator and public intellectual, was among the most prominent of these, and the most articulate and sophisticated advocate of the rule of law, the linchpin of liberalism. This book tells the story of his efforts and his analysis of the reasons for their ultimate failure. It is thus, in part, an example for movements seeking to liberalize authoritarian countries today—both as a warning and a guide. Although never a cabinet member or the head of his political party—the Constitutional Democrats or “Kadets”—Maklakov was deeply involved in most of the political events of the period. He was defense counsel for individuals resisting the regime (or charged simply for being of the wrong ethnicity, such as Menahem Beilis, sometimes considered the Russian Dreyfus). He was continuously a member of the Kadets’ central committee and their most compelling orator. As a somewhat maverick (and moderate) Kadet, he stood not only between the country’s absolute extremes (the reactionary monarchists and the revolutionaries), but also between the two more or less liberal centrist parties, the Kadets on the center left, and the Octobrists on the center right. As a member of the Second, Third and Fourth Dumas (1907-1917), he advocated a wide range of reforms, especially in the realms of religious freedom, national minorities, judicial independence, citizens’ judicial remedies, and peasant rights.
Author : Mardges Bacon
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
This study of one of the most innovative practitioners of the Beaux-Arts movement in America covers Flagg's early training and Beaux-Arts works, his town and country houses, his commercial and utilitarian buildings, the Singer Tower, urban housing reform, and his small houses of modular design.
Author : Paul M. Minus
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Baptists
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Author : Adam Laats
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674416716
The idea that American education has been steered by progressivism is accepted as fact by liberals and conservatives alike. Adam Laats shows that this belief is wrong. Calling to center stage conservatives who shaped America’s classrooms, he shows that in the long march of American public education, progressive reform has been a beleaguered dream.
Author : Ronald G. Walters
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 1997-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809015889
For this new edition of American Reformers 1815-1860, Ronald G. Walters has amplified and updated his exploration of the fervent and diverse outburst of reform energy that shaped American history in the early years of the Republic. Capturing in style and substance the vigorous and often flamboyant men and women who crusaded for such causes as abolition, temperance, women's suffrage, and improved health care, Walters presents a brilliant analysis of how the reformers' radical belief that individuals could fix what ailed America both reflected major transformations in antebellum society and significantly affected American culture as a whole.
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Prohibition
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