California progressivism revisited / edited by William Deverell and Tom Sitton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deverell, William, 1962- editor.

Sitton, Tom, 1949- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Progressivism (United States politics).

Women--Political activity--California--History--20th century.

Women.

African Americans--California--Politics and government.

African Americans.

California--Politics and government--1850-1950.

California.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1994]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

California was perhaps the most important locus for the development of the Progressive reform movement in the decades of the twentieth century. These twelve original essays represent the best of the new scholarship on California Progressivism. Ranging across a spectrum that embraces ethnicity, gender, class, and varying ideological stances, the authors demonstrate that reform in California was a far broader, more complicated phenomenon than we have previously understood. Since the 1950s, scholars have used California Progressivism as a model case study for explaining early twentieth-century social and political reform nationwide. But such a model--which ignored issues of class, race, and gender--simplified a political movement that was, in fact, quite complex. In revising the monolithic interpretation of reform and reformers, this volume provides a better understanding of the sweeping reform impulses that had such a profound effect on American political and social institutions during this century. Equally important, the issues examined here offer significant insights into problems that the entire country must tackle as we approach the new century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

CONTRIBUTORS

INTRODUCTION. The Varieties of Progressive Experience

John Randolph Haynes and the Left Wing of California Progressivism

William Kent

Neither Friends nor Foes

The Neglected Twin

A Penchant for Probity

Socialist Women and Progressive Reform

Los Angeles Clubwomen and Progressive Reform

City Mothers and Delinquent Daughters

African-Americans and the Politics of Race in Progressive-Era Los Angeles

The “New Nationalism,” Mexican Style

The Progressive Legacy in California

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520914575

0520914570

9780585116495

0585116490

OCLC:

1163877997