Tyranny of Change

America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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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 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 lives in a transformed economy. He explores the dimensions of the new consumer society and the new information and entertainment industries: newspapers, magazines, the movies. Striding these pages are many of the prominent individuals who shaped the attitudes and institutions of modern America: J. P. Morgan and corporate reorganization; Jane Addams and the origin of modern social work; Mary Pickford and the new star-oriented motion picture industry; and the radical labor challenge of “Big Bill” Haywood and the “Wobblies.”While recognizing a “progressive ethos”-a mixture of idealistic vision and pragmatic reforms-which dominated the mainstream reforms that characterized the period, Chambers elaborates the role of civic volunteerism as well as the state in achieving directed social change. He also emphasizes the importance of radical and conservative political forces in shaping the so-called “Progressive Era.”The revised edition in this classic work has an updated bibliography and a new preface, both of which incorporate particularly the new social and cultural research of the past decade.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2000-03-01
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor350
Upplaga3
FörlagRutgers University Press
ISBN9780813527994

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Preface to the 2000 EditionPreface to the Second EditionCrisis of the 1890sA New Kind of GrowthThe Age of IndustrialismPrelude to the Twentieth CenturyNew Jobs, New RolesThe Weakened Spring of GovernmentPolitics in the Depression DecadeThe Taste of EmpireThe Challenge of ChangeThe Corporate RevolutionThe Great Merger MovementThe Mass Production, Mass Consumption SocietyChanges in Work and the Work ForceProductivity and Pain in AgricultureThe New Corporate EconomyA Changing Society and CultureA Growing NationClass and Status in American SocietyWomen, the Family, and SexualityModernism and Institutions: Schools, Hospitals, Places of WorshipThe Challenge of the CityA New Mass Consumption CultureAviation and the Promise of TechnologyModernism in Thought and ArtThe Progressive ImpulseThe Great LightProgressives as InterventionistsThe Progressive AgendaThe Development of Nationwide ReformVoluntarism as a Middle WayReform in the CitiesProgressivism in the StatesThe Progressive ImpulseThe Washington WhirligigThe Death of a PresidentTheodore Roosevelt: The Warrior as PresidentThe Square Deal, 1901 -- 1909Taft versus the Insurgents, 1909 -- 1913Woodrow Wilson: The Scholar as Chief ExecutiveThe New Freedom, 1913 -- 1916Political ModernizationTaking the Flag OverseasThe Road to InterventionismRoosevelt's Big-Stick DiplomacyTaft's Dollar DiplomacyWilson's Missionary DiplomacyWorld War I: U.S. Neutrality, 1914 -- 1916The Road to Belligerency, 1916 -- 1917The Debate over American EntryWorld War I and the Search for a New World Order, 1917 -- 1920America Goes to WarMobilizing the Home FrontWorkers and War: Organized Labor, Women, and MinoritiesVictory in France, Defeat in the Soviet UnionThe Diplomacy of Peacemaking and the Rejection of the LeagueDomestic Discord and RepressionThe Meaning of the Progressive EraThe Interventionist Impulse``Modernization'' in World PerspectiveCycles of ReformThe Legacy of the Progressive EraThe Progressive Era and the Nature of Modern AmericaBibliographyIndex