Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform

318 Pages·2019·18.987 MB·English

by  Marilyn Lake

Progressive New World

Progressive New World
How Settler Colonialism and
Transpacific Exchange
Shaped American Reform
Marilyn Lake
Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts • London, England
2019
Copyright © 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of Amer i ca
First printing
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Lake, Marilyn, author.
Title: Progressive new world : how settler colonialism and Transpacific
exchange shaped American reform / Marilyn Lake.
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018006855 | ISBN 9780674975958 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Progressivism (United States politics)—History. | Social
problems—United States—History. | Social problems—Australia—History. |
Racism—United States—History. | Racism—Australia—History. | Colonies—
Oceania—Administration. | Indians of North America—Government relations—
History. | Aboriginal Australians—Government relations—History.
Classification: LCC HT1523 .L285 2018 | DDC 361.1—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018006855
Jacket design: Graciela Galup
Jacket art: Vida Goldstein, T. Humphry & Co., photographer, State Library
Victoria.
Theodore Roosevelt speaking to a crowd from a raised platform, c. 1910.
American Press Association, Library of Congress.
Background: Thinkstock
In memory of Tracey Banivanua- Mar, 1974–2017
An inspiring colleague and fine historian

Contents
Introduction: Settler Colonialism and Progressivism 1
1. Self- Government, Democracy, and White Manhood 22
2. An Expansive State with Socialistic Tendencies 45
3. Purifying Politics through Electoral Reform 74
4. Federal Idealism and Labor Realism 106
5. W oman Suffrage as an Object Lesson 136
6. M others of the Nation 169
7. L abor Investigators Cross the Pacific 193
8. Indigenous Progressivism Calls Settler Colonialism
to Account 224
Abbreviations 251
Notes 253
Acknowl edgments 297
Index 299

Progressive New World