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Women Workers and Race in LIFE Magazine Hansel Mieth’s Reform Photojournalism 1934-1955

Women Workers and Race in LIFE Magazine Hansel Mieth’s Reform Photojournalism 1934-1955

The tension between social reform photography and photojournalism is examined through this study of the life and work of German émigré Hansel Mieth (1909-1998) who made an unlikely journey from migrant farm worker to Life photographer. She was the second woman in that role after Margaret Bourke-White. Unlike her colleagues Mieth was a working-class reformer with a deep disdain for Life's conservatism and commercialism. In fact her work often subverted Life's typical representations of women workers and minorities. Some of her most compelling photo essays used skillful visual storytelling to offer fresh views on controversial topics: birth control vivisection labor unions and Japanese American internment during the Second World War. Her dual role as reformer and photojournalist made her a desirable commodity at Life in the late 1930s and early 40s but this role became untenable in Cold War America when her career was cut short. Today Mieth's life and photographs stand as compelling reminders of the vital yet overlooked role of immigrant women in twentieth-century photojournalism. Women Workers and Race in LIFE Magazine draws upon a rich array of primary sources including Mieth's unpublished memoir oral histories and labor archives. The book seeks to unravel and understand the multi-layered often contested stories of the photographer's life and work. It will be of interest to scholars of photography history women's studies visual culture and media history. | Women Workers and Race in LIFE Magazine Hansel Mieth’s Reform Photojournalism 1934-1955

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Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham's (1748-1832) writings in social and political thought were both theoretical and practical. As a theorist he made important contributions to the modern understanding of the principle of utility to ideas of sovereignty liberty and justice and to the importance of radical reform in a representative democracy. As a reformer his ideas regarding constitutionalism revolution individual liberty and the extent of government have not only played an important role in eighteenth and nineteenth century debates but also together with his theoretical work remain relevant to similar debates today. This volume includes essays from leading Bentham scholars plus an introduction surveying recent scholarship by Frederick Rosen formerly Director of the Bentham Project and Professor Emeritus of the History of Political Thought University College London.

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Frank Tannenbaum The Making of a Convict Criminologist

Frank Tannenbaum The Making of a Convict Criminologist

Frank Tannenbaum and the Making of a Convict Criminologist is a historical biography about Columbia University professor Frank Tannenbaum and his contribution to American criminology. Tannenbaum was a major figure in criminology in the early twentieth century and is known for his contributions to labeling theory particularly his conception of the dramatization of evil presented in his 1938 book Crime and Community. Tannenbaum served a year on Blackwell’s Island in New York City for labor disturbances in 1914 and subsequently became a prison reformer writing about his experiences with the American penal system and serving as the official reporter for the Wickersham Commission’s study on Penal Institutions Probation and Parole in 1931. This book explores his unique early career and his influence on convict criminology drawing on his personal papers housed at the Butler Library at Columbia University. | Frank Tannenbaum The Making of a Convict Criminologist

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The Routledge Companion to John Wesley

The Routledge Companion to John Wesley

The Routledge Companion to John Wesley provides an overview of the work and ideas of one of the principal founders of Methodism John Wesley (1703-91). Wesley remains highly influential especially within the worldwide Methodist movement of some eighty million people. As a preacher and religious reformer his efforts led to the rise of a global Protestant movement but the wide-ranging topics addressed in his writings also suggest a mind steeped in the intellectual developments of the North Atlantic early modern world. His numerous publications cover not only theology but ethics history aesthetics politics human rights health and wellbeing cosmology and ecology. This volume places Wesley within his eighteenth-century context analyzes his contribution to thought across his multiple interests and assesses his continuing relevance today. It contains essays by an international team of scholars drawn from within the Methodist tradition and beyond. This is a valuable reference particularly for scholars of Methodist Studies theology church history and religious history.

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American Indian Policy and American Reform Case Studies of the Campaign to Assimilate the American Indians

American Indian Policy and American Reform Case Studies of the Campaign to Assimilate the American Indians

First published in 1987 American Indian Policy and American Reform examines key aspects of American Indian policy and reform in the context of American ethnic problems and traditions of reform. The first four chapters provide a chronological survey discussing racial attitudes economic issues the role of the Bureau of Indian Affairs missionary and reformer involvement with government policy the political interaction of Indians and whites and other continuing differences between the two races. The second part of the book examines important themes which illuminate the difficulties of the assimilation campaign. In a series of case studies Prof. Bolt explores Indian-black-white relations in the South and Indian Territory American anthropologists and American Indians Indian education from colonial times to the 20th century Indian women urban Indians since the Second World War and Indian political protest groups. This book will be of interest to students of American history ‘minority’ history and race relations. | American Indian Policy and American Reform Case Studies of the Campaign to Assimilate the American Indians

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Betsy Mix Cowles Champion of Equality

Betsy Mix Cowles Champion of Equality

Betsy Mix Cowles (a champion of equality whose circle of acquaintances included Frederick Douglass Abby Kelley and William Lloyd Garrison) is a brilliant example of what an educated and independent woman can accomplish. A staunch defender of abolitionism Cowles also took up the cause of women's rights and dedicated her life to the advocacy of women's access to education equal rights and independence in the pre-Civil War era. The life of this devoted social reformer illuminates the struggles and historical developments relating to abolitionism and the fledgling women's movement during one of the most contentious periods in American history. About the Lives of American Women series: Selected and edited by renowned women's historian Carol Berkin these brief biographies are designed for use in undergraduate courses. Rather than a comprehensive approach each biography focuses instead on a particular aspect of a woman's life that is emblematic of her time or which made her a pivotal figure in the era. The emphasis is on a 'good read' featuring accessible writing and compelling narratives without sacrificing sound scholarship and academic integrity. Primary sources at the end of each biography reveal the subject's perspective in her own words. Study questions and an annotated bibliography support the student reader. | Betsy Mix Cowles Champion of Equality

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The Private Papers of John Earl of Sandwich 1771-1782 Vol. I

The Private Papers of John Earl of Sandwich 1771-1782 Vol. I

The Fourth Earl of Sandwich was First Lord of the Admiralty (for the third time in his long career) from 1771 to 1782. Blamed by the Whig opposition for many of the disasters of the American War he was additionally loaded by 19th-century Whig historians with the false image of a corrupt libertine. It was the publication of these volumes of his correspondence and papers (then in the family home now in the National Maritime Museum) covering the years 1771 to 1782 which restored his reputation as a conscientious and imaginative naval administrator and reformer especially of the dockyards and of the timber question. Without entirely rescuing his status as a strategist they showed very clearly the weaknesses at the heart of the North administration which damaged its handling of the war and undermined Sandwich’s efforts. A fifth volume intended to cover his handling of naval patronage was overtaken by the war. This volume covers August 1770 to March 1778. With this volume a separate booklet was published which was the Corrigenda to Papers relating to the First Dutch War 1652-54 Capt A Dewar. See NRS Volumes 13 17 30 37 41 and 66. | The Private Papers of John Earl of Sandwich 1771-1782 Vol. I

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The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson

This study offers the first comprehensive account of Emerson's philosophy since his philosophical rehabilitation began in the late 1970s. It builds on the historical reconstruction proposed in the author's previous book Emerson's Metaphysics and like that study draws on the entire Emerson corpus—the poetry and sermons included. The aim here is expository. The overall though not exclusive emphasis is on identity as the first term of Emerson's metaphysics of identity and flowing or metamorphosis. This metaphysics or general conception of the nature of reality is what grounds his epistemology and ethics as well as his esthetic religious and political thought. Acknowledging its primacy enables a general account like this to avoid the anti-realist overemphasis on epistemology and language that has often characterized rehabilitation readings of his philosophy. After an initial chapter on Emerson's metaphysics the subsequent chapters devoted to the other branches of his thought also begin with their necessary foundation in identity which is the law of things and the law of mind alike. Perception of identity in metamorphosis is what characterizes the philosopher the poet the scientist the reformer and the man of faith and virtue. Identity of mind and world is felt in what Emerson calls the moral sentiment. Identity is Emerson's answer to the Sphinx-riddle of life experienced as a puzzling succession of facts and events. | The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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On Education

On Education

Jane Addams the founder of Hull House in Chicago may be best known as a social activist. She was also a brilliantly critical intellectual. Implicit in her many speeches articles and books is a view of education as a broad process of cultural transformation and renewal a view that remains as compelling today as when it was first presented. Addams sees education as the foundation of democracy the basis for the free expression of ideas. Addams's writings on education are interpreted in an enlightening bio-graphical introduction by Ellen Lagemann. After the initial publication of this work Barbara L. Jacquette of the Delta Group Inc. in Phoenix wrote Professor Lagemann has brought life and immediacy to Jane Addams's work. Better she has given us a context that shows us that some of our most pressing issues today are simply old problems in new guises problems for which some of the old solutions may still be of use. Gerald Lee Gutek of Loyola University of Chicago commented Lagemann's insightful and sensitive biography reveals Addams's transformation from a reserved graduate of a small women's college into the Progressive reformer and pioneer of the settlement house movement. The essays collected here span a significant portion of Jane Addams's life from the time she spent in college to her founding of Hull House and beyond. Addams's constant interest in education is reflected in her writings. This book also reveals the many influences on Addams's life including the philosopher and educator John Dewey. On Education is an important work for educators women's studies specialists social workers and historians.

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Catharine Beecher The Complexity of Gender in Nineteenth-Century America

Catharine Beecher The Complexity of Gender in Nineteenth-Century America

Catharine Beecher: The Complexity of Gender in Nineteenth-Century America investigates how the life of education reformer Catharine Beecher is a lens through which to understand the cultural changes of the nineteenth century. Catharine Beecher’s writings outlined a unique domestic role for women just as urbanization and industrialization were limiting their social influence. By arguing that gender differences were a strength Beecher empowered middle-class women to embrace domestic duties. This book contextualizes Beecher’s life against the major changes that occurred during the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century. By looking at Beecher’s writings and anecdotes from her life this book offers insight into her personality and how her career shaped the culture of femininity. Students and the general reader will find this a powerful and insightful introduction to Catharine Beecher her work and legacy. About the Lives of American Women series: selected and edited by renowned women's historian Carol Berkin these brief biographies are designed for use in undergraduate courses. Primary sources at the end of each biography reveal the subject's perspective in her own words. Study questions and an annotated bibliography support the student reader. About the Series Editor: Carol Berkin is Presidential Professor of History Emerita at Baruch College & the Graduate Center City University of New York. Berkin is a frequent contributor to PBS and History Channel television documentaries on early American and Revolutionary Era history and edits the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s online journal History Now. She serves on the scholarly boards of several professional organizations including The National Museum of Women s History and the Scholars Board of the Gilder Lehrman Institute. She has been elected to the Society of American Historians and the American Antiquarian Society. In addition Berkin is a frequent participant in programs at the New-York Historical Society and a speaker for One Day University and for a variety of organizations across the country. | Catharine Beecher The Complexity of Gender in Nineteenth-Century America

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The Dollfuss/Schuschnigg Era in Austria A Reassessment

The Dollfuss/Schuschnigg Era in Austria A Reassessment

The years of Chancellors Dollfuss and Schuschnigg's authoritarian governments (1933/34-1938) have been denounced as Austrofascism from the left or defended as a Christian corporate state (Stondestaat) from the right. During this period Austria was in a desperate struggle to maintain its national independence vis-o-vis Hitler's Germany a struggle that ultimately failed. In the end the Nazis invaded and annexed Austria (Anschluss). Volume 11 of the Contemporary Austrian Studies series stays away from these heated historiographical debates and looks at economic domestic and international politics sine ira et studio. Timothy Kirk opens with an assessment of Austrofascism in light of recent discourse on interwar European fascism. Three scholars from the Economics University of Vienna analyze the macroeconomic climate of the 1930s: Hansjrg Klausinger the Vienna School's theoretical contributions to end the Great Depression; Gerhard Senft the economic policies of the Stondestaat; and Peter Berger the financial aid from the League of Nations. Jens Wessels delves into the microeconomic arena and presents case studies of leading Austrian businesses and their performance during the depression. Jim Miller looks at Dollfuss the agrarian reformer. Alexander Lassner and Erwin Schmidl deal with the context of the international arena and Austria's desperate search for protection against Nazi Anschluss-pressure and military preparedness against foreign aggression. In a comparativist essay Megan Greene compares the policies of Austria's Haider and Italy's Berlusconi and recent EU responses to threats from the Right. The FORUM looks at various recent historical commissions in Austria dealing with Holocaust-era assets and their efforts to provide restitution to victims of Nazism. Two review essays by Evan Burr Bukey and Hermann Freudenberger survey recent scholarly literature on Austria(ns) during World War II. This addition to the Contemporary Austrian Studies series will be welcomed by political scientists historians and scholars with a strong interest in European affairs. | The Dollfuss/Schuschnigg Era in Austria A Reassessment

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