{"product_id":"the-history-of-wisconsin-volume-john-d-buenker-9780870203039","title":"The History of Wisconsin, Volume IV: The Progressive Era, 1893-1914 Volume 4","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial year, this fourth volume in \u003ci\u003eThe History of Wisconsin\u003c\/i\u003e series covers the twenty tumultuous years between the World's Columbian Exposition and the First World War when Wisconsin essentially reinvented itself, becoming the nation's \"laboratory of democracy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe period known as the Progressive Era began to emerge in the mid-1890s. A sense of crisis and a widespread clamor for reform arose in reaction to rapid changes in population, technology, work, and society. Wisconsinites responded with action: their advocacy of women's suffrage, labor rights and protections, educational reform, increased social services, and more responsive government led to a veritable flood of reform legislation that established Wisconsin as the most progressive state in the union.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs governor and U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., was the most celebrated of the Progressives, but he was surrounded by a host of pragmatic idealists from politics, government, and the state university. Although the Progressives frequently disagreed over priorities and tactics, their values and core beliefs coalesced around broad-based participatory democracy, the application of scientific expertise to governance, and an active concern for the welfare of all members of society-what came to be known as \"the Wisconsin Idea.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John D. Buenker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0870203037\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780870203039\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wisconsin Historical Society Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/18\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 756\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.26w x 1.92d","brand":"John D. Buenker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065219690751,"sku":"9780870203039","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d7d7b060-4617-41e1-b0e7-526b90381b00.jpg?v=1768673767","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-history-of-wisconsin-volume-john-d-buenker-9780870203039","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}