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008			090624t2010 enka frb f001 0 eng d
010			_a 2009025810
020			_a9780195311068 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _dDLC _dEG-ScBUE
043			_an-us---
082	0	4	_a324.27327 _bNUG _222
100	1		_aNugent, Walter T. K. _939784
245	1	0	_aProgressivism : _ba very short introduction / _cWalter Nugent.
260			_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _cc.2010.
300			_a[xv], 144 p. : _bill. ; _c18 cm.
490	0		_aVery short introductions ; _v223
500			_aIndex : p. 136-144.
504			_aBibliography : p. 129-135.
520			_aAfter 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.
650		0	_aProgressivism (United States politics) _xHistory _y19th century. _2BUEsh
650		0	_aProgressivism (United States politics) _xHistory _y20th century. _2BUEsh
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1865-1933. _2BUEsh
653			_bEEENG _cApril2016
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