Progressive new world : how settler colonialism and Transpacific exchange shaped American reform /

In Progressive New World, Marilyn Lake seeks to explain the paradoxes of Progressive reform in the United States and Australia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when democratic practices such as women's and workers' rights, children's welfare, and indigenous assimi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lake, Marilyn (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvckq5t0
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Settler colonialism and progressivism
  • Self-government, democracy, and white manhood
  • An expansive state with socialistic tendencies
  • Purifying politics through electoral reform
  • Federal idealism and labor realism
  • Woman suffrage as an object lesson
  • Mothers of the nation
  • Labor investigators cross the Pacific
  • Indigenous progressivism calls settler colonialism to account.