Civic engagement : social science and progressive-era reform in New York City / John Louis Recchiuti.
2007
HN80.N5 R43 2007 (Mapit)
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Civic engagement : social science and progressive-era reform in New York City / John Louis Recchiuti.
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ISBN
0812239571
9780812239577
9780812239577
Publication Details
Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2007.
Language
English
Description
311 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Item Number
9780812239577
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HN80.N5 R43 2007
Summary
"John Louis Recchiuti recounts the history of a vibrant network of young American scholars and social activists who helped transform a city and a nation. In this study, Recchiuti focuses on more than a score of Progressive reformers, including Florence Kelley, W.E.B. Du Bois, E.R.A. Seligman, Charles Beard, Franz Boaz, Frances Perkins, Samuel Lindsay, Edward Devine, Mary Simkhovitch, and George Edmund Haynes. He reminds us how people from markedly diverse backgrounds forged a movement to change a city, and beyond it, a nation."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-295) and index.
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Table of Contents
Competing gospels: "Make way for science and for light!"
From noblesse oblige to social reform in the "New Philanthropy" of "Scientific Charity"
Social settlements as neighborhood democracy or benevolent paternalism?
"A science of municipal government" : "scientific training" or "agents of Wall Street"?
"To look after the nation's crop of children"
"Self-constituted leaders or 'teachersʼ whose principal aim is domination"? Social science, organized labor, and social insurance legislation
Social science and "the Negro problem": from "Nordic myth" to the NAACP and National Urban League
"Our ideas will become common currency": social science political engagement in the election of 1912 and its aftermath.
From noblesse oblige to social reform in the "New Philanthropy" of "Scientific Charity"
Social settlements as neighborhood democracy or benevolent paternalism?
"A science of municipal government" : "scientific training" or "agents of Wall Street"?
"To look after the nation's crop of children"
"Self-constituted leaders or 'teachersʼ whose principal aim is domination"? Social science, organized labor, and social insurance legislation
Social science and "the Negro problem": from "Nordic myth" to the NAACP and National Urban League
"Our ideas will become common currency": social science political engagement in the election of 1912 and its aftermath.