Michael B. Katz is Stanley I. Sheerr Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author or editor of ten books on the history of education, social policy, and poverty, including
Poverty and Policy in American History (Academic Press),
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America (Basic Books), and
The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare (Pantheon).
10 Ebooks por Michael B. Katz
Michael B. Katz: The ‘Underclass’ Debate
Do ominous reports of an emerging ‘underclass’ reveal an unprecedented crisis in American society? Or are social commentators simply rediscovering the tragedy of recurring urban poverty, as they seem …
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Michael B. Katz: Why Don’t American Cities Burn?
At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily Af …
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Michael B. Katz & Mike Rose: Public Education Under Siege
Proponents of education reform are committed to the idea that all children should receive a quality education, and that all of them have a capacity to learn and grow, whatever their ethnicity or econ …
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Michael B. Katz: Improving Poor People
‘There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America’s inner cities are among them, ‘ acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions between activism and scholarship. But this major h …
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Michael B. Katz: Undeserving Poor
First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America’s enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century, Micha …
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Michael B. Katz: Undeserving Poor
First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America’s enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century, Micha …
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€27.02
Michael B. Katz: Poverty and Policy in American History
Poverty and Policy in American History is about people who needed help in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is about the ways in which the perception of poverty and other forms of depe …
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Roger Biles & Raymond A. Mohl: Making of Urban America
The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added t …
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Michael B. Katz: Reconstructing American Education
One of the leading historians of education in the United States here develops a powerful interpretation of the uses of history in educational reform and of the relations among democracy, education, a …
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Michael B. Katz & Mark J. Stern: One Nation Divisible
American society today is hardly recognizable from what it was a century ago. Integrated schools, an information economy, and independently successful women are just a few of the remarkable changes t …
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