LEADER 03946nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910821275803321 005 20230421045636.0 010 $a0-674-02984-4 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674029842 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805674 035 $a(OCoLC)456199330 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10331301 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000262386 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11238154 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000262386 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10270922 035 $a(PQKB)11038220 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300715 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300715 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10331301 035 $a(OCoLC)923116423 035 $a(DE-B1597)589951 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674029842 035 $a(OCoLC)1294426793 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805674 100 $a19970930d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe triumph of ethnic Progressivism $eurban political culture in Boston, 1900-1925 /$fJames J. Connolly 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d1998 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-90950-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-253) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tContents -- $tTables -- $tNeighborhoods of Boston - Map -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 Politics and Society at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- $t2 The Dimensions of Progressivism -- $t3 The Politics of Municipal Reform -- $t4 The New Urban Political Terrain -- $t5 James Michael Curley and the Politics of Ethnic Progressivism -- $t6 Ethnic Progressivism Triumphant: Boston Public Life in the 1920s -- $tEpilogue -- $tStatistical Appendix -- $tSelected Primary Sources -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aProgressivism, 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. 606 $aPolitical culture$zMassachusetts$zBoston$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aProgressivism (United States politics)$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aBoston (Mass.)$xPolitics and government 607 $aBoston (Mass.)$xEthnic relations 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 615 0$aProgressivism (United States politics)$xHistory 676 $a974.4/61 700 $aConnolly$b James J.$f1962-$01643233 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821275803321 996 $aThe triumph of ethnic Progressivism$94091844 997 $aUNINA