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Progressivism : a very short introduction / Walter Nugent.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Very short introductions ; 223Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c.2010.Description: [xv], 144 p. : ill. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 9780195311068 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 324.27327 NUG 22
Summary: After decades of conservative dominance, the election of Barack Obama may signal the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progressivism? What role has it played in the political, social, and economic history of America? This very timely Very Short Introduction offers an engaging overview of progressivism in America--its origins, guiding principles, major leaders and major accomplishments. A many-sided reform movement that lasted from the late 1890s until the early 1920s, progressivism emerged as a response to the excesses of the Gilded Age, an era that plunged working Americ.
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Index : p. 136-144.

Bibliography : p. 129-135.

After decades of conservative dominance, the election of Barack Obama may signal the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progressivism? What role has it played in the political, social, and economic history of America? This very timely Very Short Introduction offers an engaging overview of progressivism in America--its origins, guiding principles, major leaders and major accomplishments. A many-sided reform movement that lasted from the late 1890s until the early 1920s, progressivism emerged as a response to the excesses of the Gilded Age, an era that plunged working Americ.

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