The Education of Jane Addams
- ISBN-10
- 0812237471
- ISBN-13
- 9780812237474
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 421
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Author
- Victoria Bissell Brown
Description
"Excellent. . . . The Education of Jane Addams provides a detailed, wonderfully complex analysis of Addams's ideas, life, and work."--Journal of American History
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