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The ‘Age of Reform’ in America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. A. Thompson
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St Catharine's College, Cambridge

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11 See, for example, Thernstrom, Stephan, Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City (Cambridge, Mass., 1964),Google Scholar and The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880–1970 (Cambridge, Mass., 1973); Gutman, Herbert G.Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America, 1815–1919’, American Historical Review, LXXVIII (06 1973), 531–87.Google Scholar

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25 In the Northeast, too, the Democrats retained the loyalty of large numbers of Protestants. See McSeveney, p. 13.

26 Jensen op. cit., pp. 309–15.

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