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  • SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES
    LOUIS FILLER
    Slavery in the United States clarifies the institution of slavery in its historical context. Filler avoids the all too prevalent literary attitude of either treating slavery as an unmitigated nightmare from the past, or regarding it as a way of life which warmly repaid slave and slaveholder. He does not reduce the issue to one of fact and figures, nor does he inject endless hyp...

    $1,320.00

  • MUCKRAKING AND PROGRESSIVISM IN THE AMERICAN TRADITION
    LOUIS FILLER
    Muckraking and progressivism have always marched arm-in-arm, cutting a wide path through modern American history. Originally published as Appointment at Armageddon, Filler's book is a vital contribution in understanding the intrinsic dynamic of reform in American life. It extracts from the issues that fostered progressivism and muckraking an essence that illuminates contemporar...

    $860.00

  • THE DEMOCRATIC IMAGINATION
    LOUIS FILLER
    This festschrift celebrates the accomplishments of renowned social scientist Irving Louis Horowitz as he turned sixty-five. Since Horowitz's views were global and his discourse was never restricted to national boundaries, the volume includes contributions from across the globe. Collectively, the book represents a personal as well as an intellectual statement from the contributo...

    $920.00

  • SOCIAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS
    LOUIS FILLER
    Social accounting grew up as a result of the desire to bring together in a meaningful and comprehensive manner all the available observed facts on the economic and financial activity of a nation. Three social accounting systems of flow have been developed during the last three decades. Each of these systems has been constructed separately and independently. The framework of eac...

    $1,320.00

  • THE CRUSADE AGAINST SLAVERY
    LOUIS FILLER
    Perhaps no other crusade in the history of the U.S. provoked so much passion and fury as the struggle over slavery. Many of the problems that were a part of that great debate are still with us. Louis Filler has brought together much information both known and new on those who organized to defeat slavery. He has also re-examined the anti-slavery movement's ideals, heroes, and ma...

    $1,360.00