The Tyranny of Change
America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920
Between 1890 and 1920, the forces accompanying industrialization sent the familiar nineteenth-century world plummeting toward extinction. The traditional countryside with its villages and family farms was eclipsed by giant corporations and sprawling cities. America appeared headed into an unknown future.In lively, accessible prose, John Whiteclay Chambers incorporates the latest scholarship about the social, cultural, political, and economic changes which produced modern America. He illuminates the experiences of blacks, Asians, Latinos, as well as other working men and women in the cities and countryside as they struggled to improve their li…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8135-2799-4
- EAN: 9780813527994
- Produktnummer: 1665792
- Verlag: Rutgers University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 350 S.
- Auflage: New ed of 2 Revised ed
- Abbildungen: bibliography
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
John Whiteclay Chambers II is professor of history at Rutgers University. He recently co-edited The New Conscientious Objection and is the author of To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America
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