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Between 1890 and 1920, the forces accompanying industrialization sent the familiar nineteenth-century world plummeting toward extinction. The traditional countryside with its villages and family farms was eclipsed by giant corporations and sprawling cities. America appeared headed into an unknown future.

In lively, accessible prose, John Chambers incorporates the latest scholarship about the social, cultural, political, and economic changes which produced modern America. He illuminates the experiences of blacks, Asians, Latinos, as well as other working men and women in the cities and countryside as they struggled to improve their lives in a transformed economy. He explores the dimensions of the new consumer society and the new information and entertainment industries: newspapers, magazines, the movies. Striding these pages are many of the prominent individuals who shaped the attitudes and institutions of modern America: J. P. Morgan and corporate reorganization; Jane Addams and the origin of modern social work; Mary Pickford and the new star-oriented motion picture industry; and the radical labor challenge of “Big Bill” Haywood and the “Wobblies.”

While recognizing a “progressive ethos”—a mixture of idealistic vision and pragmatic reforms—which dominated the mainstream reforms that characterized the period, Chambers elaborates the role of civic volunteerism as well as the state in achieving directed social change. He also emphasizes the importance of radical and conservative political forces in shaping the so-called “Progressive Era.”

The revised edition in this classic work has an updated bibliography and a new preface, both of which incorporate particularly the new social and cultural research of the past decade.

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Between 1890 and 1920, the forces accompanying industrialization sent the familiar nineteenth-century world plummeting toward extinction. The traditional countryside , with its villages and family farms, was eclipsed by giant corporations and sprawling cities.

In lively, accessible prose, John Chambers incorporates into his book the latest scholarship about the social, cultural, political, and economic changes that produced modern America. He illuminates the experiences of blacks, Asians, Latinos, as well as other working men and women in the cities and countryside, as they struggled to improve their lives in a transformed economy.

Striding these pages are many of the prominent individuals who shaped the attitudes and institutions of modern America: J.P. Morgan and corporate reorganization; Jane Addams and the origin of modern social work; Mary Pickford and the new star-oriented motion picture industry; and the radical laor challenge of "Big Bill" Haywood and the "Wobblies."

While recognizing a 'progressive ethos'- a mixture of idealistic vision and pragmatic reforms that characterized the period- Chambers elaborates the role of civic volunteerism as well as the state in achieving directed social change. He also emphasizes the importance of radical and conservative forces in shaping the so-called "Progressive Era."

The revised edition of this classic work has an updated bibliography and a new preface, both of which incorporate the new social and cultural research of the past decade.

About the Author

John Whiteclay Chambers II is professor of history at Rutgers University. He recently co-edited The New Conscientious Objection and is the author of To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rutgers University Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 1, 2000
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 2nd Edition
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 350 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0813527996
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0813527994
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
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  • R. Albin
    5 out of 5 stars
    Excellent Overview; 4.5 Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2014
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    This well written survey is an excellent overview of the Progressive era. Chambers combines solid narrative with thoughtful analyses in covering the major events and trends in political, economic, social, and intellectual-cultural history. This book features 3 major themes about the Progressive era and progressive movement. The first is captured nicely in the title. This is a period of major changes in American life; the continued impact of industrialization and urbanization, major economic fluctuations and increasing concentration of economic power, the consolidation of large, national corporate bureacracies, the development of national interest group politics, greater ethnic diversification through major immigration (including internal immigration such as the movement of African-Americans to the North), the increasing power and expansion of the Executive branch of the Federal government and particularly the Presidency, and the USA's emergence as a major international power. The second is what Chambers calls "interventionism." This is the gradual abandonment, paticularly by American middling classes squeezed between the emergent plutocracy and the greatly expanded and strongly immigrant urban working classes, of the highly individualistic, open market attitudes to economics and politics. Finally, Chambers' discussions stress the considerable heterogeneity of the progressive movement.

    Chambers opens by nicely laying out the magnitude of the major changes in American life, sketching out major economic and demographic changes, increasing urbanization and social differentiation, the beginnings of mass consumer culture, and changes in family life and the roles of women. Much of what follows is descriptions of the responses to these great social changes. Chambers stresses the diverse nature of interventionism. This includes not only expanding government, particularly Federal, roles in the economy and social policy but also greatly expanded private efforts including professional organizations, public-private partnerships to address economic and social problems, and interest group politics. Chambers suggests, for example, that interventionism includes increased Federal regulation of corporations and cartelization attempts to reduce "destructive" competition. The heterogeneity of these efforts shows the considerable heterogeneity of the progressive movement. As Chambers demonstrates, the progressive movement was a coalition pursuing some common themes but not unified by a coherent ideology or program. The progressives included the bellicose Teddy Roosevelt, pacifist reformers like Jane Addams, racist reformers like a large number of Southern and Western politicians, and more liberal (in the modern sense) individuals like La Follette and Dewey. In a particularly nice analysis, Chambers describes the progressives as "evangelistic modernizers" combining the structure and fervor of 19th century Protestant revivalism with a strong commitment to professional management and belief in science. Chambers also shows well the continuity of progressivism as a domestic reform movement with Wilson's ernest and arguably somewhat naive foreign policy.

    The narrative sections nicely convey the complexity of events, charting the ups and downs of progressivism and challenges from both conservative forces in American life and the lesser challenges from the Left. The considerable divisions of American life, particularly the efforts to Americanize or Anglo-Saxonize immigrants, the great racism manifested by anti-Asian bigotry on the West Coast and increasing lynching in the South, and enormous labor unrest.are described very well. The political history, focusing on the great expansion of Presidential power by Roosevelt and Wilson, is covered very well. The US experience of WWI is also discussed very well, including both its domestic impact, particularly the role it played in the demise of the progressive movement and the way it prefigured later expansions of Federal power, and the international dimensions.

    This book has an excellent annotated bibliography and suggestions for further reading.

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    Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2023
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    Really a good read but the pages started falling out immediately. It’s a loose leaf book now.

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  • OldCars
    5 out of 5 stars
    The Best Book on an An Important Period in Am History
    Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2024
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    Of the half dozen or so books that I have read on the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, this is the best single book on the Progressive era's reaction to the excesses of the Gilded Age. If you want to understand how we go to the 1950's, the apex of the middle class and unionized America with laws protecting children, and a 10 year upward trajectory for the middle class, this is the best place to start. Follow it up with a read of The Tyranny of Change, Coming to America: A History of Immigration by R. Daniels and by dipping into selected chapters of Joel Spring's History of American Education. Research the lives of Cornelia Bradley-Martin and Rose Cohen in her autobiography, Out of the Shadow.

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    A solid survey and introduction to the period. I selected it to understand what was going on in the country leading up to, and as a backdrop to, WWI. My only criticisms are that I found the writing a little dry in the initial chapters, but that improved; and there was a lot of material to get through before reading the period 1890-1920.

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    I just finished this amazing book. This is probably my favorite time period in US history. These were basically the years that America as we know it today was born. In my opinion, the amount and pace of fundamental change in that period has not been equaled since. I think that the cover photo is perfect, since women were the drivers of so many policy and social changes. Nowhere in this book does the author inject political biases. He writes history as it should be written…here’s what happened, and here was the result.

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    Well done overview of the Progressive Era. Packed with a lot of information.

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    This book was interesting and informative. A good read for someone wanting to study the progressive era. I recommend it.

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