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Ethnic Politics in “the Most Progressive State” - Jørn Brøndal. Ethnic Leadership and Midwestern Politics: Scandinavian Americans and the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890-1914. Northfield, MN: The Norwegian-American Historical Association; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. xi + 379 pp. Introduction, maps, notes. $40 (cloth), ISBN 0-87732-095-0.

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Jørn Brøndal. Ethnic Leadership and Midwestern Politics: Scandinavian Americans and the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890-1914. Northfield, MN: The Norwegian-American Historical Association; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. xi + 379 pp. Introduction, maps, notes. $40 (cloth), ISBN 0-87732-095-0.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

Russell A. Kazal
Russell A. Kazal
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University of Toronto at Scarborough
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 179 - 182
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2006

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References

1 Kleppner, Paul, The Cross of Culture: A Social Analysis of Midwestern Politics, 1850-1900 (New York, 1970)Google Scholar; Jensen, Richard, The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896 (Chicago, 1971)Google Scholar.

2 Thelen, David P., The New Citizenship: Origins of Progressivism in Wisconsin, 1885-1900 (Columbia, MO, 1972)Google Scholar; Thompson, William Fletcher, ed., The History of Wisconsin, vol. 4, The Progressive Era, 1893-1914, by Buenker, John D. (Madison, WI, 1998)Google Scholar. The latter (see 663) is one of many sources to note the use of the phrase “the most progressive state” to describe Wisconsin, a phrase referenced in the title of this review.

3 Milwaukee Free Press, 5 July 1902, p. 1.Google Scholar