The Pragmatic Ideal : : Mary Field Parton and the Pursuit of a Progressive Society / / Mark Douglas McGarvie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: McGarvie, Mark Douglas,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.) :; 14 b&w halftones

Following the life of a charismatic woman committed to reform, The Pragmatic Ideal provides an introduction to the politics that dominated the early decades of the twentieth century, ideas that are the basis for much of today's progressive thought. As one of the "New Women" who came o...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. A Victorian Childhood in Defense of Tradition, 1878–1896
• 2. Expanded Opportunities beyond the Home, 1896–1905
• 3. The New Women and Life in the Urban United States, 1905–1908
• 4. The Trials of Progressivism, 1909–1914
• 5. Liberalism’s Decline during and after the Great War, 1914–1924
• 6. A Rights Revival in the Roaring Twenties, 1924–1929
• 7. A New Deal for Liberalism and the United States, 1929–1969
• Afterword
• Notes
• Index