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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971314903321

Autore

Rodgers Daniel T

Titolo

Atlantic crossings : social politics in a progressive age / / Daniel T. Rodgers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998

ISBN

9780674042827

0674042824

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (634p.,[24]p. of plates ) : ill., maps

Disciplina

306.0973

Soggetti

Progressivism (United States politics)

United States Social conditions

United States Economic conditions

Europe Social conditions

Europe Economic conditions

Europe Foreign economic relations United States

United States Foreign economic relations Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-612) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Atlantic Crossings -- Prologue -- 1 Paris, 1900 -- 2 The Atlantic World -- 3 Twilight of Laissez-Faire -- 4 The Self-Owned City -- 5 Civic Ambitions -- 6 The Wage Earners' Risks -- 7 War Collectivism -- 8 Rural Reconstruction -- 9 The Machine Age -- 10 New Deal -- 11 London, 1942 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.