The Rebuilding Of Old Commonwealths

LINK, William A (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0312105908 / ISBN 13: 9780312105907

Published by U.S / Bedford Books Of St. Martin's Press, 1996

About this Item

With a 'sub-title' of 'And Other Documents Of Social Reform In The Progressive Era South'. Published as part of the 'Bedford Series In History And Culture'. With 8 'black & white' photographs. A paperback in good condition. (166 pages).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rebuilding Of Old Commonwealths
• Publisher: U.S / Bedford Books Of St. Martin's Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312105908
• ISBN 13: 9780312105907
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
  • AMERICAN HISTORY

About this title

Synopsis

This volume contains a collection of 23 documents that introduce students to some of the basic issues of Progressive Era social reform in the American South. A comprehensive introduction provides the historical background for the documents, placing them within the context of Progressive era America. The initial document, Walter Hines Page's article "The Rebuilding of Old Commonwealths", presents a manifesto for reform in the turn-of-the-century south and is followed by six sections of brief documents including articles, speeches and reports.

About the Author

William A. Link is professor of history and associate dean at the University of North Carolina at Greeensboro. His research has focused on the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century South, Progressive Era America,and the social history of American education. Link is the author of A Hard Country and a Lonely Place: Schooling, Society, and Reform in Rural Virginia, 1870-1920 (1986) and The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930 (1992), which won the Mayflower Cup Award, given annually for the best nonfiction book written by a North Carolina author. His most recent book, William Friday: Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education (1995) examines the evolution of one of the leading figures in North Carolina and American higher education in the post-1945 era.