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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974292003321

Autore

Stears Marc

Titolo

Progressives, pluralists, and the problems of the state : ideologies of reform in the United States and Britain, 1909-1926 / / Marc Stears

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

9786610446209

0-19-929163-2

1-282-36583-5

9786612365836

1-280-44620-X

0-19-154469-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

320.5

Soggetti

Cultural pluralism - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Cultural pluralism - United States - History - 20th century

Progressivism (United States politics)

Socialism - Great Britain - History

Great Britain Politics and government 1901-1936

United States Politics and government 1901-1953

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. [276]-295) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; I: Beginnings; 1. Conceptual Foundations; 2. Building the New Nationalism; 3. Socialist Pluralism; II: Debate; 4. From Nationalism to Pluralism; 5. From Pluralism to Community; III: Convergence; 6. Education as Politics; 7. The Politics of Poverty; Conclusion; Epilogue; Select Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first comprehensive examination of the close relationship between leading groups of British socialists and American progressives in the early twentieth century. Employing new methods of conceptual and institutional analysis, and drawing on extensive original archival research, the book challenges traditional analyses of these movements. - ;In the first three decades of the twentieth century, two groups of radical political theorists - one British and one American - were bound



together in a unique ideological relationship. Progressives, Pluralists, and the Problems of the State