California Progressivism Revisited

California Progressivism Revisited

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Publisher's Synopsis

California was perhaps the most important locus for the development of the Progressive reform movement in the decades of the twentieth century. These twelve original essays represent the best of the new scholarship on California Progressivism. Ranging across a spectrum that embraces ethnicity, gender, class, and varying ideological stances, the authors demonstrate that reform in California was a far broader, more complicated phenomenon than we have previously understood.

Since the 1950s, scholars have used California Progressivism as a model case study for explaining early twentieth-century social and political reform nationwide. But such a model—which ignored issues of class, race, and gender—simplified a political movement that was, in fact, quite complex.

In revising the monolithic interpretation of reform and reformers, this volume provides a better understanding of the sweeping reform impulses that had such a profound effect on American political and social institutions during this century. Equally important, the issues examined here offer significant insights into problems that the entire country must tackle as we approach the new century.

Book information

ISBN: 9780520084698
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 320.9794
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 278
Weight: 571g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 19mm