The Progressive Era in the USA

Contents: Series preface; Introduction: In search of progressivism, Daniel T. Rodgers; Richard Hofstadter's The Age of Reform: a reconsideration, Alan Brinkley; Farmers and the state in the progressive era, Elizabeth Sanders; The discovery that business corrupts politics: a reappraisal of the origins of progressivism, Richard L. McCormick; Railroads and regulation, 1877-1916: conspiracy or public interest?, Robert W. Harbeson; The protean character of American liberalism, Gary Gerstle; 'The American of the future': fictional immigrant children and national ethnic identity in the progressive era, Tim Prchal; Lawrence Veiller and the New York State Tenement House Commission of 1900, Roy Lubove; The domestication of politics: women and American political society, Paula Baker; American progressives and the European left, Melvyn Stokes Why not equal protection? Explaining the politics of public social spending in Britain, 1900-1911 and The United States, 1880s-1920, Ann Shola Orloff and Theda Skocpol; Government and the suppression of radical labor, 1877-1918, Daniel R. Fusfeld; Grasping for the significance of the Turner legacy: an afterword, John Lauritz Larson Beyond parochialism: Southern progressivism, prohibition, and state-building, Ann-Marie Szymanski; The progressives and the environment: 3 themes from the first conservation movement, James Penick; Plessy v. Ferguson: a reinterpretation, David W. Bishop; Progressivism and imperialism: the progressive movement and American foreign policy, 1898-1916, William Leuchtenberg; From colonialism to professionalism: the public-private dynamic in United States foreign financial advising, 1898-1929, Emily S. Rosenberg and Norman L. Rosenberg; The reclamation of Woodrow Wilson, David Steigerwald; An obituary for 'the progressive movement, Peter G. Filene; Name index.