Progressive Oklahoma: The Making of a New Kind of State

by Danney Goble

Book Overview

Progressive Oklahoma traces Oklahoma's rapid evolution from pioneer territory to statehood under a model Progressive constitution. Author Danney Goble reasons that the Progressive movement grew as a reaction to an exaggerated species of Gilded Age social values--the notion that an expanding marketplace and unfettered individualism would properly regulate progress.

Near the end of the territorial era, that notion was challenged: commercial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806148616
• ISBN13: 9780806148618
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"