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.

"David Gutzke has edited a group of valuable essays that contribute to the growing genre of transnational history and also encourage a rethinking of the often fragmented stories of British social reform from the 1870s through the 1930s. America's much studied Progressive Movement had its parallel and sometimes its inspiration in Britain, as both countries responded to the challenges of modern society."

• David Fahey, Professor of History, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA

  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