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..., emphasizing its contributions for thinking about progressive reform in highly conservative environments: the importance of taking advantage of political opportunities, the appropriation of legal reform, and incremental change. Three different moments are discussed: political mobilization and the construction...

...Stanley K. Schultz Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Temperance Reform in the Antebellum South: Social Control and Urban Order Stanley K. Schultz What? Temperance reform in the antebellum urban South? We all know that pre-Civil War southerners resisted national reform movements...

...Betty Fladeland Passionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform . By Abzug Robert H. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1980 . Pp. x , 370 . $19.95 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 486 The South Atlantic Quarterly engagement to Emily...

...Clinton Rogers Woodruff Volume XXII JANUARY Number 1 The South Atlantic Quarterly On Prison Reform Clinton Rogers Woodruff Philadelphia. Prison reform, declares a writer in the Canadian Munici­ pal Journal, is a business proposition. Once the cities wake up to its vital place in civic life...

...Earle D. Ross Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 Grover Cleveland and the Beginning of an Era of Reform Earle D. Boss Professor of History, Illinois Wesleyan University Find great men if you can; if you cannot, still quit not the search; in defect of great men let there be noted...

...C. Chilton Pearson Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 The Present Status of Tax Reform in North Carolina C. Chilton Pearson Wake Forest College That there is need for tax reform in North Carolina very few will deny. The existing system if system it can be called possesses few...

...Edwin Mims, Ph. D. Copyright © 1903 by Duke University Press 1903 The Reform Movement in New England By Edwin Mims, Ph. D., Professor of English Literature in Trinity College The Atlantic Monthly was established not merely for the advancement of general culture or the encouragement...

...Francis R. Hart Maria Edgeworth and the Public Scene: Intellect, Fine Feeling, and Landlordism in the Age of Reform . By Hurst Michael . Coral Gables, Fla. : University of Miami Press , 1969 . Pp. 298 . $7.95 . Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 Book Reviews 413...

...Robert F. Durden Politics, Reform and Expansion: 1890-1900 . By Faulkner Harold U. . The New American Nation Series . Edited by Commager Henry S. Morris Richard B. . New York : Harper & Brothers , 1959 . Pp. xiv , 312 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University...

...Ivan W. Parkins Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Ivan W. Parkins Let s Dissassemble the House A. Proposal for Reform of Congress The Problem The Congress of the United States consists of two similar arenas in which many factions check or frustrate one another. The balance part...

...Robert H. Woody William L. Wilson and Tariff Reform: A Biography . By Summers Festus P. . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 1953 . Pp. xi , 288 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book Reviews 283 plantations, labor problems (with and without...

...Theodore Ropp Peninsular Preparation: The Reform of the British Army 1795-1809 . By Glover Richard . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1963 . Pp. viii , 315 . $8.00 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Book Reviews 427 The documents here printed...

...Frederic B. M. Hollyday The Failure of the Prussian Reform Movement, 1807-1819 . By Simon Walter M. . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1955 . Pp. xii , 272 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Book Reviews 257 The Failure of the Prussian Reform Movement...

...Carlos T. Flick The Politics of English Dissent: The Religious Aspects of Liberal and Humanitarian Reform Movements from 1815 to 1848 . By Cowherd Raymond G. . New York : New York University Press , 1956 . Pp. 233 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Book...

...Carlos T. Flick Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 The Class Character of the Agitation for British Parliamentary Reform Carlos T. Flick In recent years historians have concluded that the class character of British politics in the first half of the nineteenth century was more...

...Bruce M. Stave The Slum and the Ghetto: Neighborhood Deterioration and Middle-Class Reform, Chicago—1880–1930 . By Philpott Thomas Lee . New York : Oxford University Press , 1978 , Pp. xxi , 428 . $17.95 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Book Reviews 263...

...James C. Cobb Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Colonel Effingham Crushes the Crackers: Political Reform in Postwar Augusta James C. Cobb At the end of World War II in southern cities as large as New Orleans and as small as Athens, Tennessee, returning veterans joined with civic...

...Patrick Bond 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Patrick Bond South Africa Tackles Global Apartheid: Is the Reform Strategy Working? Against ‘‘Global Apartheid The most intractable problem that contempo- rary...

...B. U. Ratchford Copyright © 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 THE PROGRESS OF BANKING REFORM B. U. RATCHFORD I DURING the past four years the banking system of the United States has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. For more than a decade the country has suffered from...

... The South Atlantic Quarterly The Aldrich Plan of Banking Reform Edwin W. Kemmerer,* Professor of Economics and Finance in Cornell University To most of us a million dollars appears to be a very substantial sum of money; multiply that sum by 450,000 and you have ap­ proximately the amount of business donein...