Author: Union League Club of Chicago
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Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Author: American Antiquarian Society
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 940

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Author: Charles William Eliot
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734052629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Reproduction of the original: Four American Leaders by Charles William Eliot

Author: Jean Bethke Elshtain
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465012299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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Jane Addams was a prolific and elegant writer. Her twelve books consist largely of published essays, but to appreciate her life work one must also read her previously uncollected speeches and editorials. This artfully compiled collection begins with Addams's youthful Junior Class Oration on women as "Breadgivers," features thoughtful examinations of topics as diverse as "Tolstoy and Gandhi" and "The Public School and the Immigrant Child," and even includes popular essays on "The Subtle Problems of Charity," from The Atlantic Monthly, and "Need a Woman Over Fifty Feel Old?" from Ladies' Home Journal. Along with the writings themselves, Elshtain's insightful commentary offers powerful evidence of Addams's remarkable ability to frame social problems in an ethical context, her unwillingness to succumb to ideological dogma, her political courage, and her lifelong devotion to civic and moral life.

Author: Patricia Shields
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319506463
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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This book examines the life and works of Jane Addams who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1931). Addams led an international women's peace movement and is noted for spearheading a first-of-its-kind international conference of women at The Hague during World War I. She helped to found the Women's International League of Peace and Freedom. She was also a prophetic peace theorist whose ideas were dismissed by her contemporaries. Her critics conflated her activism and ideas with attempts to undermine the war effort. Perhaps more important, her credibility was challenged by sexist views characterizing her as a “silly” old woman. Her omission as a pioneering, feminist, peace theorist is a contemporary problem. This book recovers and reintegrates Addams and her concept of “positive peace,” which has relevancy for UN peacekeeping operations and community policing. Addams began her public life as a leader of the U.S. progressive era (1890 - 1920) social reform movement. She combined theory and action through her settlement work in the, often contentious, immigrant communities of Chicago. These experiences were the springboard for her innovative theories of democracy and peace, which she advanced through extensive public speaking engagements, 11 books and hundreds of articles. While this book focuses on Addams as peace theorist and activist it also shows how her eclectic interests and feminine standpoint led to pioneering efforts in American pragmatism, sociology, public administration and social work. Each field, which traces its origin to this period, is actively recovering Addams’ contributions.

Author: Mary Lynn McCree Bryan
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 696

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Guide and indexes to the microfilm collection entitled: The Jane Addams papers, 1860-1960.

Author: Sondra R. Herman
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Jonathan Marshall Hansen
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Category : Internationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: Henry James
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Languages : en
Pages : 424

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