Progressives, pluralists, and the problems of the state
Subtitle: ideologies of reform in the United States and Britain, 1909-1926
By: Marc Stears
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Progressivism (United States politics) -- History -- 20th century; Radicals -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Socialism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Radicals -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1953; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1901-1936; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Description: "This book offers a challenging new interpretation of the development of progressive and socialist ideologies in the United States and Britain. Rejecting the conventional wisdom that American and British radical intellectuals operated largely in ignorance of each other, this work contends that the political theories, arguments, and policy suggestions of the early twentieth century left were in fact forged in trans-Atlantic debate. Concentrating especially on the arguments between Herbert Croly, Walter Lippmann, Harold Laski, and G. D. H. Cole, and drawing on extensive original archival research, Progressives, Pluralists and the Problems of the State seeks to reorient understanding of the evolution of American progressive and British socialist thought in its period of most dramatic development."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-295) and index