TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nugent,Walter T.K.
TI  - Progressivism: a very short introduction 
T2  - Very short introductions
SN  - 9780195311068 (pbk. : alk. paper)
U1  - 324.27327 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Progressivism (United States politics)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - 20th century
KW  - United States
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1865-1933
KW  - EEENG
KW  - April2016
N1  - Index : p. 136-144; Bibliography : p. 129-135

N2  - 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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