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03218cam a22003614a 4500 001 517AF78C62A311DFAF3CE96BC41A358D 003 SILO 005 20100519080509 008 090624s2010 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2009025810 020 $a 019531106X (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780195311068 (pbk. : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)326678289 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d C#P $d YDXCP $d BWX $d CDX $d VP@ $d UPM $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E661 N84 2010 100 1 $a Nugent, Walter T. K. 245 1 $a Progressivism : $b a very short introduction / $c Walter Nugent. 260 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, $c c2010. 300 $a 144 p. : $b ill. ; $c 18 cm. 490 1 $a Very short introductions ; $v 223 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The predicament : the discontents of the Gilded Age -- The crisis of the nineties, 1889-1901 -- Progressivism takes shape, 1901-1908 -- The high tide of progressivism, 1908-1917 -- Calamities : World War I and the flu epidemic, 1917-1919 -- Ebb tide, 1919-1921. 520 1 $a "This 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."--BOOK JACKET. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1865-1933. 650 0 $a Progressivism (United States politics) $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Progressivism (United States politics) $x History $y 20th century. 830 0 $a Very short introductions ; $v 223. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825045405.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20110129010427.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=517AF78C62A311DFAF3CE96BC41A358D 994 $a 02 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search