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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822063203321

Autore

Cohen Nancy <1963->

Titolo

The reconstruction of American liberalism, 1865-1914 [[electronic resource] /] / Nancy Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002

ISBN

979-88-908720-5-0

0-8078-6009-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Disciplina

320.51/3/0973

Soggetti

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Liberalism - United States - History - 19th century

Liberalism - United States - History - 20th century

Progressivism (United States politics)

United States Politics and government 1865-1933

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-310) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Politics & Ideology in Gilded Age Liberal Reform; 1. The Education of Economic Man; 2. A Civilizer's Errand; 3. Progress and Prosperity; 4. The State Versus Man; Part II: Forging a New Liberalism; 5. The American Scholar Revisited; 6. Looking Forward; 7. Mastering Progressive Democracy; Notes; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Tracing the formation of liberal political ideology from the end of the Civil War to the early 20th century, Nancy Cohen offers an interpretation of the origins and character of modern American liberalism. She argues that these values and programmes were formulated in the Gilded Age.