The Burdens of Progress, 1900-1929
Author | : Richard M. Abrams |
Publisher | : Pearson Scott Foresman |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard M. Abrams |
Publisher | : Pearson Scott Foresman |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kristofer Allerfeldt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 785 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351883488 |
Few periods in American history have been explored as much as the Progressive Era. It is seen as the birth-place of modern American liberalism, as well as the time in which America emerged as an imperial power. Historians and other scholars have struggled to explain the contradictions of this period and this volume explores some of the major controversies this exciting period has inspired. Investigating subjects as diverse as conservation, socialism, or the importance of women in the reform movements, this volume looks at the lasting impact of this productive, yet ultimately frustrated, generation's legacy on American and world history.
Author | : United States. National Archives and Records Administration |
Publisher | : National Archives & Records Administration |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richardo Romo |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2010-07-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0292787715 |
This is the story of the largest Mexican-American community in the United States, the city within a city known as "East Los Angeles." How did this barrio of over one million men and women—occupying an area greater than Manhattan or Washington D.C.—come to be? Although promoted early in this century as a workers' paradise, Los Angeles fared poorly in attracting European immigrants and American blue-collar workers. Wages were low, and these workers were understandably reluctant to come to a city which was also troubled by labor strife. Mexicans made up the difference, arriving in the city in massive numbers. Who these Mexicans were and the conditions that caused them to leave their own country are revealed in East Los Angeles. The author examines how they adjusted to life in one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States, how they fared in this country's labor market, and the problems of segregation and prejudice they confronted. Ricardo Romo is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.
Author | : Diana Kelly |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2020-06-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1787699854 |
This biography traces the adult life, works and relationships of the Taylorist, Walter Polakov, focusing on his socialist scientific management, his ideals and dreams, and how these were constrained by conventionality in the USA in the first half of the twentieth century.
Author | : Paul Michael Green |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : 9780809388455 |
Author | : Michael J. McClymond |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2004-07-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780801878077 |
"This book will appeal to scholars and students of popular religion as well as to general readers interested in the subject."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Thomas Welskopp |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 311044674X |
The ten essays in this volume deal with the debates and conflicts about modernity in a period of American history when the tensions and strains caused by seemingly unrestrained change and the reactions to it were particularly severe and tangible. Partly concentrating on the margins or dark underworlds of modernity, such as racism and violence, partly focusing on the allegedly unlimited space to negotiate and create social order from scratch, the contributions to this volume show that, and discuss why, modernity was an issue in contemporary United States which seemed to have been even more hotly contested than in Europe at the same time, albeit sometimes in terms of “Americanism” rather than “modernism”. In this book, European scholars of the United States apply variations on the transnational discourse on modernity to unexpected dimensions of U.S. history, making this volume a fascinating example of the present-day enterprise of internationalizing American studies.
Author | : John A. Thompson |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2015-12-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501701770 |
Why has the United States assumed so extensive and costly a role in world affairs over the last hundred years? The two most common answers to this question are "because it could" and "because it had to." Neither answer will do, according to this challenging re-assessment of the way that America came to assume its global role. The country's vast economic resources gave it the capacity to exercise great influence abroad, but Americans were long reluctant to meet the costs of wielding that power. Neither the country's safety from foreign attack nor its economic well-being required the achievement of ambitious foreign policy objectives.In A Sense of Power, John A. Thompson takes a long view of America's dramatic rise as a world power, from the late nineteenth century into the post–World War II era. How, and more importantly why, has America come to play such a dominant role in world affairs? There is, he argues, no simple answer. Thompson challenges conventional explanations of America's involvement in World War I and World War II, seeing neither the requirements of national security nor economic interests as determining. He shows how American leaders from Wilson to Truman developed an ever more capacious understanding of the national interest, and why by the 1940s most Americans came to support the price tag, in blood and treasure, attached to strenuous efforts to shape the world. The beliefs and emotions that led them to do so reflected distinctive aspects of U.S. culture, not least the strength of ties to Europe. Consciousness of the nation’s unique power fostered feelings of responsibility, entitlement, and aspiration among the people and leaders of the United States.This original analysis challenges some widely held beliefs about the determinants of United States foreign policy and will bring new insight to contemporary debates about whether the nation should—or must—play so active a part in world politics.
Author | : Andrea Tone |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501717480 |
In the early twentieth century, an era characterized by unprecedented industrial strife and violence, thousands of employers across the United States pioneered a new policy of labor relations called welfare work. The results of the policy were paternalistic practices and forms of compensation designed not only to control workers, but also to advertise the humanity of corporate capitalism to thwart the advance of legislated reform. In a burgeoning literature on the development of the U.S. welfare state, Andrea Tone offers a new interpretation of the importance of welfare capitalism in shaping its development.