Author: Richard HofstadterPublisher:
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Category : Progressivism (United States politics)
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Progressive Movement, 1900-1915
Author: Richard HofstadterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Progressivism (United States politics)
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Progressive Movement, 1900-1915. (Edited and with an Introduction by Richard Hofstadter. Third, Printing.).
Author: Richard HofstadterThe Progressive Movement, 1900-1920
Author: George Edwin Mowry (d)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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The Progressive Era, 1900-20
Author: George Edwin MowryPublisher:
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Category : Progressivism (United States politics)
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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Progressive Historians
Author: Richard HofstadterPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307809609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Richard Hofstadter, the distinguished historian and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, brilliantly assesses the ideas and contributions of the three major American interpretive historians of the twentieth century: Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and V.L. Parrington. These men, whose views of history were shaped in large part by the political battles of the Progressive era, provided the Progressive movement with a usable past and the American liberal mind with a historical tradition. The Progressive Historians is at once a critique of historical thought during this decisive period of American development and an account of how these three writers led American historians into the controversial political world of the twentieth century. Turner, in developing his idea that American democracy is the outcome of the experience of frontier expansion and the settlement of the West, introduced his fellow historians to a set of new concepts and methods, and in doing so doing re-drew the guidelines of American historiography. Beard insisted upon the elitist origins of the Constitution, crusaded for the economic interpretation of history, and ultimately staked his historical reputation on an isolationist view of recent American foreign policy. Parrington emphasized the moral and social functions of literature, and read the history of literature as a history of the national political mind. In recent years, the tide has run against the Progressive historians, as one specialist after another has taken issue with their interpretations. The movement of contemporary historical thought has led to a rediscovery of the complexity of the American past. Although he cannot share the faith of the Progressive historians in the sufficiency of American liberalism as a guide to the modern world, Richard Hofstadter believes we have much to learn about ourselves from a reconsideration of their insights.
Progressive movement 1900-15
Author: HofstadterA Fierce Discontent
Author: Michael McGerrPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439136033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Progressive Era, a few brief decades around the turn of the last century, still burns in American memory for its outsized personalities: Theodore Roosevelt, whose energy glinted through his pince-nez; Carry Nation, who smashed saloons with her axe and helped stop an entire nation from drinking; women suffragists, who marched in the streets until they finally achieved the vote; Andrew Carnegie and the super-rich, who spent unheard-of sums of money and became the wealthiest class of Americans since the Revolution. Yet the full story of those decades is far more than the sum of its characters. In Michael McGerr's A Fierce Discontent America's great political upheaval is brilliantly explored as the root cause of our modern political malaise. The Progressive Era witnessed the nation's most convulsive upheaval, a time of radicalism far beyond the Revolution or anything since. In response to the birth of modern America, with its first large-scale businesses, newly dominant cities, and an explosion of wealth, one small group of middle-class Americans seized control of the nation and attempted to remake society from bottom to top. Everything was open to question -- family life, sex roles, race relations, morals, leisure pursuits, and politics. For a time, it seemed as if the middle-class utopians would cause a revolution. They accomplished an astonishing range of triumphs. From the 1890s to the 1910s, as American soldiers fought a war to make the world safe for democracy, reformers managed to outlaw alcohol, close down vice districts, win the right to vote for women, launch the income tax, take over the railroads, and raise feverish hopes of making new men and women for a new century. Yet the progressive movement collapsed even more spectacularly as the war came to an end amid race riots, strikes, high inflation, and a frenzied Red scare. It is an astonishing and moving story. McGerr argues convincingly that the expectations raised by the progressives' utopian hopes have nagged at us ever since. Our current, less-than-epic politics must inevitably disappoint a nation that once thought in epic terms. The New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, the Great Society, and now the war on terrorism have each entailed ambitious plans for America; and each has had dramatic impacts on policy and society. But the failure of the progressive movement set boundaries around the aspirations of all of these efforts. None of them was as ambitious, as openly determined to transform people and create utopia, as the progressive movement. We have been forced to think modestly ever since that age of bold reform. For all of us, right, center, and left, the age of "fierce discontent" is long over.
The Progressive Movement 1900-1920 Sets 1 2
Author: The Progressive Movement, 1900-1915
Author: Richard HofstadterPublisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A collection of documents from the Progressive Movement, loosely divided into four catagories: The Muckrakers; Social & Moral Issues; Bossism & Political Reform; The Trusts & Big Business. Each author is briefly profiled, and background information is given about his or her document.
The Progressive Movement, 1900-1920
Author: George Edwin MowryPublisher:
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Category : Progressivism (United States politics)
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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