Kristofer Allerfeldt is a Fellow of Exeter University, UK. He has published on a variety of aspects of Progressive Era America - from immigration restriction, to the impact of the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles. He is currently workng on the allegory of the decline and fall of Rome on the political thought of Progressive America.

• Contents: Series preface; Introduction: In search of progressivism, Daniel T. Rodgers; Richard Hofstadter's The Age of Reform: a reconsideration, Alan Brinkley; Farmers and the state in the progressive era, Elizabeth Sanders; The discovery that business corrupts politics: a reappraisal of the origins of progressivism, Richard L. McCormick; Railroads and regulation, 1877-1916: conspiracy or public interest?, Robert W. Harbeson; The protean character of American liberalism, Gary Gerstle; 'The American of the future': fictional immigrant children and national ethnic identity in the progressive era, Tim Prchal; Lawrence Veiller and the New York State Tenement House Commission of 1900, Roy Lubove; The domestication of politics: women and American political society, Paula Baker; American progressives and the European left, Melvyn Stokes Why not equal protection? Explaining the politics of public social spending in Britain, 1900-1911 and The United States, 1880s-1920, Ann Shola Orloff and Theda Skocpol; Government and the suppression of radical labor, 1877-1918, Daniel R. Fusfeld; Grasping for the significance of the Turner legacy: an afterword, John Lauritz Larson Beyond parochialism: Southern progressivism, prohibition, and state-building, Ann-Marie Szymanski; The progressives and the environment: 3 themes from the first conservation movement, James Penick; Plessy v. Ferguson: a reinterpretation, David W. Bishop; Progressivism and imperialism: the progressive movement and American foreign policy, 1898-1916, William Leuchtenberg; From colonialism to professionalism: the public-private dynamic in United States foreign financial advising, 1898-1929, Emily S. Rosenberg and Norman L. Rosenberg; The reclamation of Woodrow Wilson, David Steigerwald; An obituary for 'the progressive movement, Peter G. Filene; Name index.