Archive for Roger W. Lotchin
From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State by David T. Beito
University of North Carolina Press • 2000 • 424 pages • $24.95 David T. Beito has written a book of significance to many subdisciplines of history, including urban history, social history, African-American history, and immigration history. Concentrating on the oft-ridiculed fraternal lodges, Beito argues that Americans have gone from a welfare system of mutual aid [...]
1Apr2001 | Roger W. Lotchin | 3 comments | Continued-
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