Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform

by Marilyn Lake

The paradox of progressivism continues to fascinate more than one hundred years on. Democratic but elitist, emancipatory but coercive, advanced and assimilationist, Progressivism was defined by its contradictions. In a bold new argument, Marilyn Lake points to the significance of turn-of-the-twentieth-century exchanges between American and Australasian reformers who shared racial sensibilities, along with a commitment to forging an ideal social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674975952
• ISBN13: 9780674975958
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"