The Age of Reform, 1815-1870

The Age of Reform, 1815-1870
Title The Age of Reform, 1815-1870 PDF eBook
Author Ernest Llewellyn Woodward
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 712
Release 1962
Genre Great Britain
ISBN 9780198217114

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Between Waterloo and Gladstone's first ministry, Britain underwent a series of rapid and complex changes. At home, repression gave way to reform of the franchise, local government, education, poor relief, and the factory and legal systems. Further agitation arose in the 1840s over the CornLaws, the People's Charter, and the Irish Question. By the 1860s, Britain was able to bask in the glow of the mid-Victorian supremacy forged by its economic might and the foreign policy pursued by Castlereagh, Canning, and Palmerston, which maintained the balance of power and extended the colonialempire. Authoritative and incisive, this newly paperbacked volume in the Oxford History of England is a classic study of Britain in the ascendant.

The Age of Reform

The Age of Reform
Title The Age of Reform PDF eBook
Author Sir Llewellyn Woodward
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Pages 681
Release 1971
Genre United Kingdom
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The Age of Reform

The Age of Reform
Title The Age of Reform PDF eBook
Author E. L. Woodward
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Release 1946
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The Age of Reform

The Age of Reform
Title The Age of Reform PDF eBook
Author Richard Hofstadter
Publisher Vintage
Pages 353
Release 2011-12-21
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0307809641

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and preeminent historian comes a landmark in American political thought that examines the passion for progress and reform during 1890 to 1940. The Age of Reform searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise.

A Fierce Discontent

A Fierce Discontent
Title A Fierce Discontent PDF eBook
Author Michael McGerr
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 428
Release 2010-05-11
Genre History
ISBN 1439136033

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The Progressive Era, a few brief decades around the turn of the last century, still burns in American memory for its outsized personalities: Theodore Roosevelt, whose energy glinted through his pince-nez; Carry Nation, who smashed saloons with her axe and helped stop an entire nation from drinking; women suffragists, who marched in the streets until they finally achieved the vote; Andrew Carnegie and the super-rich, who spent unheard-of sums of money and became the wealthiest class of Americans since the Revolution. Yet the full story of those decades is far more than the sum of its characters. In Michael McGerr's A Fierce Discontent America's great political upheaval is brilliantly explored as the root cause of our modern political malaise. The Progressive Era witnessed the nation's most convulsive upheaval, a time of radicalism far beyond the Revolution or anything since. In response to the birth of modern America, with its first large-scale businesses, newly dominant cities, and an explosion of wealth, one small group of middle-class Americans seized control of the nation and attempted to remake society from bottom to top. Everything was open to question -- family life, sex roles, race relations, morals, leisure pursuits, and politics. For a time, it seemed as if the middle-class utopians would cause a revolution. They accomplished an astonishing range of triumphs. From the 1890s to the 1910s, as American soldiers fought a war to make the world safe for democracy, reformers managed to outlaw alcohol, close down vice districts, win the right to vote for women, launch the income tax, take over the railroads, and raise feverish hopes of making new men and women for a new century. Yet the progressive movement collapsed even more spectacularly as the war came to an end amid race riots, strikes, high inflation, and a frenzied Red scare. It is an astonishing and moving story. McGerr argues convincingly that the expectations raised by the progressives' utopian hopes have nagged at us ever since. Our current, less-than-epic politics must inevitably disappoint a nation that once thought in epic terms. The New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, the Great Society, and now the war on terrorism have each entailed ambitious plans for America; and each has had dramatic impacts on policy and society. But the failure of the progressive movement set boundaries around the aspirations of all of these efforts. None of them was as ambitious, as openly determined to transform people and create utopia, as the progressive movement. We have been forced to think modestly ever since that age of bold reform. For all of us, right, center, and left, the age of "fierce discontent" is long over.

The Victorians

The Victorians
Title The Victorians PDF eBook
Author John Gardiner
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 332
Release 2002-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9781852853853

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Ever since Lytton Strachey mocked Thomas Arnold, Florence Nightingale and General Gordon in Eminent Victorians, the reputation of the Victorians and what they stood for has provoked vigorous debate.

The Age of Reform

The Age of Reform
Title The Age of Reform PDF eBook
Author Ernest Llewellyn Woodward
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Release 1938
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