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Author McGarvie, Mark D. (Mark Douglas), 1956- author.

Title The pragmatic ideal : Mary Field Parton and the pursuit of a progressive society / Mark Douglas McGarvie
Published Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (x, 197 pages) illustrations
Contents A Victorian Childhood in Defense of Tradition, 1878-1896 -- Expanded Opportunities Beyond the Home, 1896-1905 -- The New Women and Life in Urban America, 1905-1908 -- The Trials of Progressivism, 1909-1914 -- Liberalism's Decline During and After the Great War, 1914-1928 -- A Rights Revival in the Roaring Twenties, 1924-1929 -- A New Deal for Liberalism and America, 1929-1969
Summary "This microhistory uses the life of writer and social activist Mary Field Parton to access the intellectual and cultural movements of the late 1800s and early 1900s and to explore the tensions and inconsistencies within progressivism"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 13, 2022)
Subject Parton, Mary Field -- Political and social views
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 -- Political and social views
Parton, Mary Field -- Political and social views
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 fast
Parton, Mary Field fast
Subject Progressivism (United States politics) -- History
Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography
Women political activists -- United States -- Biography
Electronic books.
e-books.
Intellectual life
Political and social views
Politics and government
Progressivism (United States politics)
Social conditions
Women political activists
Women social reformers
SUBJECT United States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140366
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140367
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140515
United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140516
United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140457
Subject United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021023365
ISBN 9781501762673
1501762672
9781501762680
1501762680