Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State
- ISBN-10
- 0674845811
- ISBN-13
- 9780674845817
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 538
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Alan Dawley
Description
In this new interpretation of the making of modern America, Dawley traces the group struggles involved in the nation's rise to power. Probing the dynamics of social change, he explores tensions between industrial workers and corporate capitalists, Victorian moralists and New Women, native Protestants and Catholic immigrants.
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- 1991
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- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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