America in the Progressive Era 1890 1914 or Environment Power and Society for the Twenty First Century

America in the Progressive Era, 1890 - 1914: Seminar Studies in History

Author: Lewis L Gould

America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1914 provides a readable, analytical narrative of the emergence, influence, and decline of the spirit of progressive reform that animated American politics and culture around the turn of the twentieth century. Covering the turbulent 1890s and the era of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the book covers the main political and policy events of a period which set the agenda for American public life during the remainder of the twentieth century.

Key features include:
#A clear account of the continuing debate in the United States over the role of government and the pursuit of social justice
#A full examination of the impact of reform on women and minorities
#A rich selection of documents that allow the historical actors to communicate directly to today's reader
#An extensive Bibliography providing a valuable guide to additional reading and further research

Based on the most recent scholarship and written to be read by students, America in the Progressive Era makes this turbulent period come alive.

LEWIS T. GOULD is Eugene C. Barker Centennial Professor of American History at the University of Austin, Texas.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction to the Series
	Note on Referencing System
	Preface
	Author's Acknowledgements
	Publisher's Acknowledgements
1	The Roots of Progressive Change	3
	The Beginnings of Reform	7
	The Realigning Election of 1894	9
	The Varieties of Reform	11
	The Segregated South	13
	McKinley versus Bryan in 1896	14
2	Progressivism Emergent	21
	The War with Spain and its Consequences	22
	The 1900 Presidential Election	24
	The Trust Problem	25
	The States Respond	26
	Muckraking Reporters	28
	Reform in the Cities	29
	The Advent of Theodore Roosevelt	30
	The Square Deal	34
3	The Rising Tide of Progressive Reform	38
	The Progressive Agenda	39
	The Rise of Regulation	41
	Roosevelt's Regulatory Campaign	42
	Rising Public Support for Reform	43
	Roosevelt's Regulatory Program	44
	Roosevelt and the Muckrakers	45
	The 1906 Elections	46
	The Brownsville Raid and Race Relations	49
	The Presidential Contest in 1908	50
4	Progressivism at its Height	53
	Taft and his Problems	54
	Revising the Tariff	55
	The Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy	55
	The Republicans Divided	56
	Roosevelt and the New Nationalism	57
	The Election of 1910	58
	The Quickening Tempo of Reform	59
	The Race for the White House in 1912	60
	Taft and Roosevelt Split	61
	The Rise of Woodrow Wilson	64
	The New Nationalism and the New Freedom	65
5	Progressivism in Decline	68
	Reforms Adopted	68
	Prohibition and Woman Suffrage	69
	Wilson as President	70
	Enacting the New Freedom	72
	Reforming the Banking System	74
	Republican Revival and Progressive Decline	75
	Corporate Reform	76
	The 1914 Elections and Beyond	77
	War and the Climax of Reform	78
	Chronology	105
	Glossary	107
	Who's Who	110
	Bibliography	112
	Index	122

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Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-First Century: The Hierarchy of Energy

Author: Howard T Odum

Howard T. Odum possessed one of the most innovative minds of the twentieth century. He pioneered the fields of ecological engineering, ecological economics, and environmental accounting, working throughout his life to better understand the interrelationships of energy, environment, and society and their importance to the well-being of humanity and the planet.

This volume is a major modernization of Odum's classic work on the significance of power and its role in society, bringing his approach and insight to a whole new generation of students and scholars. For this edition Odum refines his original theories and introduces two new measures: emergy and transformity. These concepts can be used to evaluate and compare systems and their transformation and use of resources by accounting for all the energies and materials that flow in and out and expressing them in equivalent ability to do work. Natural energies such as solar radiation and the cycling of water, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen are diagrammed in terms of energy and emergy flow. Through this method Odum reveals the similarities between human economic and social systems and the ecosystems of the natural world. In the process, we discover that our survival and prosperity are regulated as much by the laws of energetics as are systems of the physical and chemical world.