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The progressive era in American historical fiction: John Dos Passos' The 42nd parallel and E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime
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ISBN: 8021017481 Year: 1998 Publisher: Brno Masarykova univerzita v Brne

Atlantic crossings : social politics in a progressive age
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ISBN: 0674051319 0674002016 9780674051317 9780674042827 0674042824 9780674002012 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

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This text is an account of the vibrant international network that the American soci-political reformers constructed - so often obscured by notions of American exceptionalism - and of its profound impact on the USA from the 1870's through to 1945.

Creating a democratic public : the struggle for urban participatory democracy during the progressive era
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ISBN: 0271017236 Year: 1998 Publisher: University Park, Pa. Pennsylvania State University Press

The triumph of ethnic Progressivism : urban political culture in Boston, 1900-1925
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ISBN: 0674029844 9780674029842 9780674909502 067490950X Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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Progressivism, James Connolly shows us, was a language and style of political action available to a wide range of individuals and groups. A diverse array of political and civic figures used it to present themselves as leaders of a communal response to the growing power of illicit interests and to the problems of urban-industrial life. As structural reforms weakened a ward-based party system that helped mute ethnic conflict, this new formula for political mobilization grew more powerful. Its most effective variation in Boston was an "ethnic progressivism" that depicted the city's public life as a clash between its immigrant majority--"the people"--and a wealthy Brahmin elite--"the interests." As this portrayal took hold, Bostonians came to view their city as a community permanently beset by ethnic strife. In showing that the several reform visions that arose in Boston included not only the progressivism of the city's business leaders but also a series of ethnic progressivisms, Connolly offers a new approach to urban public life in the early twentieth century. He rejects the assumption that ethnic politics was machine politics and employs both institutional and rhetorical analysis to reconstruct the inner workings of neighborhood public life and the social narratives that bound the city together. The result is a deeply textured picture that differs sharply from the traditional view of machine-reform conflict.

Rendering unto Caesar
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ISBN: 1299104525 0226294056 9780226294056 9780226293851 0226293858 0226293831 0226293858 9780226293837 0226293831 9780226293837 Year: 1998 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Nowhere has the relationship between state and church been more volatile in recent decades than in Latin America. Anthony Gill's controversial book not only explains why Catholic leaders in some countries came to oppose dictatorial rule but, equally important, why many did not. Using historical and statistical evidence from twelve countries, Gill for the first time uncovers the causal connection between religious competition and the rise of progressive Catholicism. In places where evangelical Protestantism and "spiritist" sects made inroads among poor Catholics, Church leaders championed the rights of the poor and turned against authoritarian regimes to retain parishioners. Where competition was minimal, bishops maintained good relations with military rulers. Applying economic reasoning to an entirely new setting, Rendering unto Caesar offers a new theory of religious competition that dramatically revises our understanding of church-state relations.

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