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Progressive New World - How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform (Hardcover)
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Progressive New World - How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform (Hardcover)
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The paradox of progressivism continues to fascinate more than one
hundred years on. Democratic but elitist, emancipatory but
coercive, advanced and assimilationist, Progressivism was defined
by its contradictions. In a bold new argument, Marilyn Lake points
to the significance of turn-of-the-twentieth-century exchanges
between American and Australasian reformers who shared racial
sensibilities, along with a commitment to forging an ideal social
order. Progressive New World demonstrates that race and reform were
mutually supportive as Progressivism became the political logic of
settler colonialism. White settlers in the United States, who saw
themselves as path-breakers and pioneers, were inspired by the
state experiments of Australia and New Zealand that helped shape
their commitment to an active state, women's and workers' rights,
mothers' pensions, and child welfare. Both settler societies
defined themselves as New World, against Old World feudal and
aristocratic societies and Indigenous peoples deemed backward and
primitive. In conversations, conferences, correspondence, and
collaboration, transpacific networks were animated by a sense of
racial kinship and investment in social justice. While "Asiatics"
and "Blacks" would be excluded, segregated, or deported, Indians
and Aborigines would be assimilated or absorbed. The political
mobilizations of Indigenous progressives-in the Society of American
Indians and the Australian Aborigines' Progressive
Association-testified to the power of Progressive thought but also
to its repressive underpinnings. Burdened by the legacies of
dispossession and displacement, Indigenous reformers sought
recognition and redress in differently imagined new worlds and thus
redefined the meaning of Progressivism itself.
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