Transatlantic Social Politics, 1800-Present

Transatlantic Social Politics, 1800–Present is a collection of essays that pays tribute to Daniel T. Rodgers's acclaimed Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998). If the past is often seen through a global or transnational lens today, this was not always the case. Contrary to scholarship that still tended to identify exceptional and national trends, Rodgers has enlarged the framework and has paved the way for a new generation of scholars whose works still reverberate today. Daniel Scroop and Andrew Heath have gathered nine European and American scholars to question Rodgers's chronology and too-narrow focus solely on progressive politics. First, they explain that Rodgers's time line understimates the decades before and after the golden age his book depicts—mainly the period between the Progressive Era and World War II. As a consequence, most essays deal with the early nineteenth century or the post–World War II period. In his brilliant piece, David Komline explores the transatlantic exchanges surrounding educational reform in antebellum America. In a similar vein, Jonathan Bell questions the idea that World War II was a watershed by gathering evidence to show the continuity of transatlantic reforms after the bloody conflict

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