| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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American Progressives and German Social Reform, 1875–1920: Social Ethics, Moral Control, and the Regulatory State in a Transatlantic Context. By Axel R. Schäfer. (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2000. 252 pp. Paper, DM 74, ISBN 3-515-07461-9.)

The demise of the progressive tradition in American politics in recent years has prompted a heroic effort of historical resuscitation. James T. Kloppenberg, Daniel T. Rodgers, and other scholars have recovered the heady promise with which twentieth-century liberalism was born, the prospect of a just and peaceful resolution to the cataclysmic industrial strife of the Gilded Age. Axel R. Schäfer's fine study of what American progressives learned from their German counterparts adds to the growing literature illuminating the cosmopolitan breadth and ideological daring of turn-of-the-century reform. Schäfer perceptively highlights the contrast between the far-reaching agenda progressives brought home from German universities and their comparatively conservative achievements in legislation and regulation, prefiguring the impoverishment of public debate about social welfare by the century's end. . . .

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