Jane Addams and Her Vision of America (Library of American Biography) - Softcover

Opdycke, Sandra

 
9780205598403: Jane Addams and Her Vision of America (Library of American Biography)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0205598404 ISBN 13: 9780205598403
Verlag: Pearson Education (US), 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Jane Addams and Her Vision of America brings Addams' life and work alive in a way that no account has before. The book is a presentation of Jane Addams' story in clear, non-technical language, focusing primarily on her philosophy and achievements as well as their significance in her own time and ours.

Paperback, brief and inexpensive, each of the titles in the Library of American Biography series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. In addition, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sandra Opdycke

Sandra Opdycke is the associate director of the Institute for Innovation in Social Policy at Vassar College. A student of Mark Carnes, she received her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1995 and has lectured and written extensively on urban history, women's history and public health, including No One Was Turned Away: The Role of Public Hospitals in New York City Since 1900 (Oxford, 1999) and The Routledge Historical Atlas of Women in America (Routledge, 2000). She has also contributed 70 essays to American National Biography (Oxford, 1999), which was edited by authors John A. Garraty and Mark Carnes.

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Verlag
Pearson Education (US)
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0205598404
ISBN 13 
9780205598403
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
264
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