Henry Demarest Lloyd and the Empire of Reform / Chester McArthur Destler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Destler, Chester McArthur, author.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1963]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface and Acknowledgments

Contents

Illustrations

I Locofoco or Patrician ?

II A Mercantile Gateway to Reform

III A Liberal Republican

IV The Chicago Tribune and Jessie Bross

V For Liberalism, Business Ethics, and Bimetallism

VI For National Railroad Regulation

VII Originator of the "Progressive Mind"

VIII A Second Wendell Phillips?

IX A Welfare Philosophy : "The New Conscience"

X The Social Mecca of Reform

XI Trades Unions -Spring Valley

XII For Social Justice and Urban Regeneration

XIII An Experiment with American Fabianism

XIV Wealth Against Commonwealth

XV The Standard Oil Counterattacks

XVI Cosmopolitan "Fighter of Trusts"

XVII Champion of Academic Freedom

XVIII Co-operation : Utopia or Practical Solution

XIX Importer of Antipodean Democracy

XX Dean of American Reform during the McKinley Era

XXI The Lloyds in Boston

XXII "The People's Attorney" and the Anthracite Coal Strike Arbitration

XXIII A Pragmatic Test for Debs

XXIV For Urban Welfare Democracy

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9781512815528

1512815527

OCLC:

1100433418