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Focusing On The Cultural Conflicts Between Social Reformers And Southern Communities, William Link Presents An Important Reinterpretation Of The Origins And Impact Of Progressivism In The South. He Shows That A Fundamental Clash Of Values Divided Reformers And Rural Southerners, Ultimately Blocking The Reforms. His Book, Based On Extensive Archival Research, Adds A New Dimension To The Study Of American Reform Movements. The New Group Of Social Reformers That Emerged Near The End Of The Nineteenth Century Believed That The South, An Underdeveloped And Politically Fragile Region, Was In The Midst Of A Social Crisis. They Recognized The Environmental Causes Of Social Problems And Pushed For Interventionist Solutions. As A Consensus Grew About Southern Social Problems In The Early 1900s, Reformers Adopted New Methods To Win The Support Of Reluctant Or Indifferent Southerners.^ By The Beginning Of World War I, Their Public Crusades On Prohibition, Health, Schools, Woman Suffrage, And Child Labor Had Led To Some New Social Policies And The Beginnings Of A Bureaucratic Structure. By The Late 1920s, However Social Reform And Southern Progressivism Remained Largely Frustrated. Link's Analy

Author

William A. Link

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807820407

Subjects

Political Science, History, Sociology

Updated

2026-03-24