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Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West
Thomas Krainz
Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West
Thomas Krainz
Examines local welfare practices, policies, and debates during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a diverse collection of western communities. Krainz investigates how communities used poor relief, mothers' pensions, blind benefits, county hospitals, and poor farms, as well as explains the roles that private charities played in sustaining needy residents.
325 pages, illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 28, 2011 |
ISBN13 | 9780826330260 |
Publishers | University of New Mexico Press |
Pages | 339 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 23 mm · 553 g |
Language | English |
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