Progressivism - A Materials List

Miscellaneous History
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The following sources are a list of both audio lectures and written sources concerning the history of the Progressive movement in the US. If there is something I missed or you wish to add, please feel free.

Written Sources:

The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900-1916 by Gabriel Kolko

The Invisible Hand of Planning: Capitalism, Social Science and the State in the 1920’s by Guy Alchon

Designing the Industrial State: The Intellectual Pursuit of Collectivism in American, 1880-1940 by James Gilbert

A Century of War by John Denson

The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State, 1900-1918 by James Weinstein

‘World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals’ by Murray Rothbard

‘War Collectivism in World War I’ by Murray Rothbard

‘The Progressive Era and the Family’ by Murray Rothbard

‘Origins of the Federal Reserve’ by Murray Rothbard

‘The Progressive Era’ by William Anderson

‘Millennialism and the Progressive Movement’ by Gary North

‘The Reform Mentality, War, Peace, and the National State: from the Progressives to Vietnam’ by Arthur Ekrich Jr

‘A Spectre is Haunting America: An Interpretation of Progressivism’ by Alan Stone

Audio Sources:

‘The Progressive Era?’ by Murray Rothbard

‘The Progressive Era Triple Alliance: Government as Cartelizer’ ( Part One / Part Two ) by Murray Rothbard

‘Hayek and His Lamentable Contemporaries’ by Murray Rothbard

‘The Progressive Era’ by Thomas Woods

‘Teddy Roosevelt and the Origins of the Modern Welfare-Warfare State’ by Thomas Woods

‘World War I: A Failure of State Elites’ by Ralph Raico

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I bequeath to you five stars and a bump, but I doubt this is as romantic as your Marxist material list [:P]

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Businessmen and Reform / The Search for Order, 1877-1920 by Robert Wiebe

Great Wars and Great Leaders by Ralph Raico

Railroads and Regulation by Gabriel Kolko

"The Role of State Monopoly Capitalism in the American Empire" / “The Political Economy of Liberal Corporatism” by Joseph Stromberg

Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs

The Decline of American Liberalism / Progressivism in American by Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.

Why American History is not What they Say : An Introduction to Revisionism by Jeff Riggenbach

The Capitalist Revolution: A History of American Social Thought, 1890-1919 by John Tipple

“Wall Street, Banks and American Foreign Policy” / “Origins of the Welfare State in America” by Murray Rothbard

The Politics of War by Walter Karp

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Very nice, thanks. Can you link to the Marxism list?

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I would be really interested in materials on progressivism in Europe.

This place has a search function, you know.

https://forum.freecapitalists.org/t/marxism-a-materials-list/8604

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“I would be really interested in materials on progressivism in Europe.”

That would really be an interesting angle. I have some books that are about how Progressivism came to America through Western Europe but I haven’t read them yet. If any names pop up I will be sure to bring them up.

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Andrew, I suggest you investigate eugenics programs in Denmark, Iceland, and Norway during the 1950s. There’s a wealth of material there about the general thinking behind the loose axis of American Progressivism, British Fabianism, and north European Social Democracy.

All of them independent, but all of them reaching the same conclusions from the same premises.

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Yes. Or to be precise, how progrssivism originated in Europe and lead to world war I. There’s a lot of material on how progressivism in the US led to the US joining the war, but not how it got started in Europe.

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“Yes. Or to be precise, how progrssivism originated in Europe and lead to world war I. There’s a lot of material on how progressivism in the US led to the US joining the war, but not how it got started in Europe.”

That would be a great topic for a research paper.

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"Andrew, I suggest you investigate eugenics programs in Denmark, Iceland, and Norway during the 1950s. There’s a wealth of material there about the general thinking behind the loose axis of American Progressivism, British Fabianism, and north European Social Democracy.

All of them independent, but all of them reaching the same conclusions from the same premises."

Thanks for the tip.