Robert Harrison

Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of progressivism and the political change which established the modern American state.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780521158145
• ISBN-10: 0521158141
• Artikelnr.: 31572478

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Congress and the nation
3. The troubled subject of railroad regulation in the progressive era
4. Congress and the 'labor question'
5. The ideal of a 'model city': Congress and the District of Columbia
6. The Senate and progressive reform
7. Patterns of republican insurgency in the House of Representatives
8. Progressivism, democratic style
9. Congress, progressive reform, and the new American state.