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Westhoff, Laura M.

A Fatal Drifting Apart Democratic Social Knowledge and Chicago Reform / Laura M. Westhoff. - 1 online resource (xv, 309 p.) - Urban life and urban landscape . - Urban life and urban landscape series. Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-304) and index.

"He who merits victory" : liberal republicanism and the crisis of the 1890s -- "To serve as a medium of acquaintance and sympathy" : the Civic Federation and conflicting visions of democratic social knowledge -- "To add the social function to democracy" : Jane Addams, Hull House, and democratic social knowledge -- "Such a piece of business folly" : labor arbitration and class struggles over democratic social knowledge -- "The struggle is bound to take in the Negro" : race and democratic social knowledge -- "Drawn on rational and scientific lines" : the fate of democratic social knowledge -- Epilogue.

Open Access

ISBN: 9780814272176 0814272177

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social ethics--History.--Illinois--Chicago
Social reformers--History.--Illinois--Chicago

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HN80.C5 / W47 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 303.48/40977311