Encyclopaedia of Social Reform - Hardcover

Encyclopaedia of Social Reform : Including Political Economy Political Science (3 Vols-Set)

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. The New Encyclopaedia of Social Reform was first published in 1908 under the chief editorship of William D.P. Bliss an American clergyman and leading figure in the Christian socialist movement. It contains a vast number of entries on virtually everything and everybody of interest in the liberal and radical thought of the day. Contributors range across the leftwing political spectrum from liberal democrats through Fabian socialists to early communists. They include H.H. Asquith Henry Campbell Bannerman Edward Bellamy Lord Brassey William Jennings Bryan Lord Cromer Henry Rider Haggard Prince Peter Kropotkin Christabel Pankhurst Upton Sinclair Leo Tolstoy Booker T. Washington and Sidney Webb. Subjects include people and issues in political economy political science sociology anarchism trades unionism women's suffrage land reform and all the major topics of social reform under debate at the time. Many of the arguments discussed here remain relevant even today and much of the biographical details is not to be found in any other reference work Vital reference source for left wing thought and thinkers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Information on radical movements from Abolitionism to Zionism. Biographical detail on hundreds of progressive figures across the world. Includes economic and social statistics from many countries. Contributors include H.H. Asquith Leo Tolstoy Booker T. Washington and Sidney Webb. New introduction by Morgen Witzel. 1439 pp. Artikel-Nr. 57443

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