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Seven Progressives–A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

John Braeman
Affiliation:
Ohio State University

Abstract

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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1961

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3 Quoted in Mowry, The Era of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 55.

4 Leuchtenberg, William E., “Progressivism and Imperialism: The Progressive Movement and American Foreign Policy, 1898–1916,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review, vol. XXXIX (Dec, 1952), pp. 483504CrossRefGoogle Scholar, is a valuable pioneering attempt to link up the domestic and foreign aspects of progressivism, but the approach differs from that taken in the present essay.

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