American Progressives and German Social Reform, 1875-1920: Social Ethics, Moral Control, and the Regulatory State in a Transatlantic Context

by Axel R. Schäfer

This study recreates the intellectual climate and transatlantic setting of turn-of-the-century American reform. It examines the influence and meaning of German social thought and reform in the American Reform Movement prior to World War I. The American Progressives used the German theories in order to develop and establish new concepts of reform and to base democracy on principles other than possessive individualism, utilitarian ethics, and market...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3515074619
• ISBN13: 9783515074612
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
• Length: 252 Pages