Changing the World (eBook)

American Progressives in War and Revolution

Alan DAWLEY (Autor)

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2013
424 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5059-4 (ISBN)

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In May of 1919, women from around the world gathered in Zurich, Switzerland, and proclaimed, "e;We dedicate ourselves to peace!"e; Just months after the end of World War I, the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom--a group led by American progressive Jane Addams and comprising veteran campaigners for social reform--knew that a peaceful world was essential to their ongoing quest for social and economic justice. Alan Dawley tells the story of American progressives during the decade spanning World War I and its aftermath. He shows how they laid the foundation for progressive internationalism in their efforts to improve the world both at home and abroad. Unlike other accounts of the progressive movement--and of American politics in general--this book fuses social and international history. Dawley shows how interventions in Latin America and Europe affected domestic plans for social reform and civic engagement, and he depicts internal battles among progressives between unabashed imperialists like Theodore Roosevelt and their implacable opponents like Robert La Follette. He draws a contrast between Woodrow Wilson's use of force in exporting American ideals and Addams's more cosmopolitan pursuit of economic justice and world peace. In discussing the debate over the League of Nations within the context of turbulent domestic affairs, Dawley brings keen insight into that complicated moment in American history. In striking and original ways, Dawley brings together domestic and world affairs to argue that American progressivism cannot be understood apart from its international context. Focusing on world-historical events of empire, revolution, war, and peace, he shows how American reformers invented a new politics built around progressive internationalism. Changing the World retrieves the progressive tradition in American politics and makes it available to contemporary debates. The book speaks to anyone seeking to be both a good citizen within the nation and a good citizen of today's troubled world.

Autor

Alan Dawley is Professor of History at the College of New Jersey. He is the author of Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn, which won the Bancroft Prize, and Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.11.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Zusatzinfo: 12 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • African Americans • Aftermath of World War II • americanization • American Protective League • anthony comstock • Anti-Communism • Anti-Imperialism • anti-saloon league • Big Business • bolsheviks • Capitalism • Central Powers • Civilization • Cold War liberal • Committee on Public Information • communism • Communist International • counter-revolutionary • Cross-class alliance • Crystal Eastman • Dawes Plan • demagogue • Disarmament • Dollar Diplomacy • Eugene V. Debs • Eugenics • Floyd Dell • Foreign policy of the United States • Fourteen Points • Gilded Age • Great Power • Ideology • Immigration Restriction League • imperialism • Industrial Workers of the World • Irreconcilables • isolationism • Jane Addams • jingoism • John Dos Passos • Labour movement • League of Nations • left-wing politics • Mexican Revolution • Militarism • Muckraker • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • National Security League • nation state • New Nationalism • Oliver Cromwell • Pacifism • palmer raids • Paris Peace Conference, 1919 • Patrician (ancient Rome) • political machine • Politician • Politics • popular sovereignty • Populism • power politics • Progressive Era • progressivism • Progressivism in the United States • Prohibition • Puritans • Racial segregation • Racism • Radicalism (historical) • Red Scare • Reform Movement • Robber baron (industrialist) • Romanticism • Samuel Gompers • Self-determination • Sentinels of the Republic • social revolution • Soviet Union • Superiority (short story) • The Other Hand • The Passing of the Great Race • The Phantom Public • The Public Interest • The Rape of Belgium • The Wretched of the Earth • Total War • Trade Union • Walter Lippmann • Walther Rathenau • war effort • warfare • W. E. B. Du Bois • white supremacy • William Borah • Woodrow Wilson • Works Progress Administration • World revolution • World War II • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5059-2 / 1400850592
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5059-4 / 9781400850594