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American history
American History Series
American labor history
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early 20th-century American history
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Progressive Era
Progressive Movement
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U.S. History
urbanization
welfare history
welfare state
women in the Progressive Movement
working class
Product details
- ISBN 9781118651070
- Weight: 308g
- Dimensions: 142 x 217mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2014
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The Progressives offers comprehensive coverage of the origins, evolution, and notable events that came to define the pivotal period of American history known as the Progressive Era.
- Offers a rich, in-depth analysis of who the progressives were and the process through which they identified and attacked social, economic, and political injustices
- Features an up-to-date synthesis of the literature of the field including comprehensive treatment of the role of women in the Progressive Movement
- Considers the movement's enduring impact – and how its vision for a better society became transfixed in the American social consciousness and helped to create the modern welfare state
- Part of the well-respected American History series
- Integrates themes of class, race, ethnicity, and gender throughout, offering a concise and engaging account of a fascinating era in U.S. history that forever changed the relationship between a democratic government and its citizens
Karen Pastorello is Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies at Tompkins Cortland Community College (SUNY) where she directs the Honors Program. She is the author of A Power Among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (2008).
