This collection of essaysexplores how Progressivism was the historical catalyst for reforms across the social and political spectrum in Britain for over half a century.

Autorentext
DAVID GUTZKE is a Professor of History at Missouri State University, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction; F.M.L. Thompson Historians and Progressivism; D. W. Gutzke Britain and Transnational Progressivism; D. W. Gutzke The Civic Ideal: Glasgow and the United States, 1880-1920; B. Aspinwall Democracy and Drink; B. Aspinwall Transatlantic Progressivism in Women's Temperance and Suffrage; I. Tyrrell Britain's "Social Housekeepers"; D. W. Gutzke Social Settlement Houses: The Educated Women of Glasgow and Chicago; R. Hamilton