ABSTRACT
Originally published in 1991, Reform in New York City provides an interpretive synthesis of urban progressivism and provides a comprehensive historical look at progressivism in New York City. The book argues that urban reform still poses a major historiographical challenge to historians working today and that there is limited analysis of the social and political action that characterised turn of the century New York. The book addresses the conceptual approaches, interpretive differences, and thematic emphasis of the urban reform agenda.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|72 pages
The Nineteenth Century Reform Tradition
part II|52 pages
The Arrival of Progressivism
part III|70 pages
The Triumph of Progressivism