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Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction [#223]
Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction [#223]
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オバマ政権が掲げているとされる進歩主義とはどのようなものでしょうか。南北戦争のいわゆる「金ぴか時代」にはびこった腐敗や不正を是正しようと、政治、経済、教育、医療、労働などさまざまな分野で広がったこの改革は、のちにニューディール政策の土台ともなりました。本書は、1890年代から1920年代まで続いたアメリカの進歩主義の成り立ち、基本理念、主な指導者とその成果などの概要を紹介します。(cf. The Great Depression and The New Deal, #166)
  

  • A vivid portrait of American Progressivism—the reform movement spawned by Gilded Age extravagance—reveals some remarkable parallels between past and present

   
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 Americans into poverty while a new class of ostentatious millionaires built huge mansions and flaunted their wealth. As capitalism ran unchecked and more and more economic power was concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, a sense of social crisis was pervasive. Progressive national leaders like William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert M. La Follette, and Woodrow Wilson, as well as muckraking journalists like Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell, and social workers like Jane Addams and Lillian Wald answered the growing call for change. They fought for worker's compensation, child labor laws, minimum wage and maximum hours legislation; they enacted anti-trust laws, improved living conditions in urban slums, instituted the graduated income tax, won women the right to vote, and laid the groundwork for Roosevelt's New Deal. Nugent shows that the progressives—with the glaring exception of race relations—shared a common conviction that society should be fair to all its members and that governments had a responsibility to see that fairness prevailed.
  
Offering a succinct history of the broad reform movement that upset a stagnant conservative orthodoxy, this Very Short Introduction reveals many parallels, even lessons, highly appropriate to our own time. 

目次: 

Acknowledgments
List of illustrations
Introduction

1. The predicament: the discontents of the Gilded Age
2. The crisis of the nineties, 1889–1901
3. Progressivism takes shape, 1901–1908
4. The high tide of Progressivism, 1908–1917
5. Calamities: World War I and the flu epidemic, 1917–1919
6. Ebb tide, 1919–1921
References
Further reading
Index

著者について: 

Walter Nugent is a former President of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and former president of the Western History Association. He has taught history at the University of Notre Dame and at Indiana University. He is the author of many books, including The Tolerant Populists; Into the West: The Story of Its People; and Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion. He lives in Highland Park, Illinois.

商品情報

ISBN : 9780195311068

著者: 
Walter T.K. Nugent
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160 ページ
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Paperback
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111 x 174 mm
刊行日
2009年12月
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Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction [#223]

Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction [#223]

Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction [#223]