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Book Life in the Age of Enterprise

Download or read book Life in the Age of Enterprise written by Robert Harris Walker and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profile of late nineteenth-century America during the era she became an industrial nation and a world industrial power.

Book Everyday life in the age of enterprise  1865 1900  by walker

Download or read book Everyday life in the age of enterprise 1865 1900 by walker written by Robert harris Walker and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Everyday Life in Victorian America  1865 1900

Download or read book Everyday Life in Victorian America 1865 1900 written by Robert Harris Walker and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profile of late nineteenth-century America during the era she became an industrial nation and a world industrial power.

Book Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age written by Leonard C. Schlup and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2003 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers all the people, events, movements, subjects, court cases, inventions, and more that defined the Gilded Age.

Book Evangelicalism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Kyle
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-09-20
  • ISBN : 1351321668
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Evangelicalism written by Richard Kyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most forms of religion are best understood in the con- text of their relationship with the surrounding culture. This may be particularly true in the United States. Certainly immigrant Catholicism became Americanized; mainstream Protestantism accommodated itself to the modern world; and Reform Judaism is at home in American society. In Evangelicalism, Richard Kyle explores paradoxical adjustments and transformations in the relationship between conservative Protestant Evangelicalism and contemporary American culture. Evangelicals have resisted many aspects of the modern world, but Kyle focuses on what he considers their romance with popular culture. Kyle sees this as an Americanized Christianity rather than a Christian America, but the two are so intertwined that it is difficult to discern the difference between them. Instead, in what has become a vicious self-serving cycle, Evangelicals have baptized and sanctified secular culture in order to be considered culturally relevant, thus increasing their numbers and success within abundantly populous and populist-driven American society. In doing so, Evangelicalism has become a middle-class movement, one that dominates America's culture, and unabashedly populist. Many Evangelicals view America as God's chosen nation, thus sanctifying American culture, consumerism, and middle-class values. Kyle believes Evangelicals have served themselves well in consciously and deliberately adjusting their faith to popular culture. Yet he also thinks Evangelicals may have compromised themselves and their future in the process, so heavily borrowing from the popular culture that in many respects the Evangelical subculture has become secularism with a light gilding of Christianity. If so, he asks, can Evangelicalism survive its own popularity and reaffirm its religious origins, or will it assimilate and be absorbed into what was once known as the Great American Melting Pot of religions and cultures? Will the Gospel of the American dream ultimately engulf and destroy the Gospel of Evangelical success in America? This thoughtful and thought-provoking volume will interest anyone concerned with the modern-day success of the Evangelical movement in America and the aspirations and fate of its faithful.

Book Expansion of Everyday Life  p

Download or read book Expansion of Everyday Life p written by Daniel E. Sutherland and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age written by T. Adams Upchurch and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gilded Age was an important three-decade period in American history. It was a time of transition, when the United States began to recover from its Civil War and post-war rebuilding phase. It was as a time of progress in technology and industry, of regression in race relations, and of stagnation in politics and foreign affairs. It was a time when poor southerners began farming for a mere share of the crop rather than for wages, when pioneers settled in the harsh land and climate of the Great Plains, and when hopeful prospectors set out in search of riches in the gold fields out West. The Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age relates the history of the major events, issues, people, and themes of the American "Gilded Age" (1869-1899). This period of unprecedented economic growth and technical advancement is chronicled in this reference and includes a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries.

Book John L  Sullivan and His America

Download or read book John L Sullivan and His America written by Michael T. Isenberg and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994-01-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A knockout biography of John L. Sullivan that puts the fabled boxing champ squarely in the context of his rough-and-tumble times. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary sources, including the scandalous National Police Gazette, Isenberg (History/Annapolis) recounts how Sullivan brawled his way from a working-class background in Boston's Irish ghetto to the top of the prizefighting world.

Book American Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jack Salzman
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1986-08-29
  • ISBN : 9780521266888
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book American Studies written by Jack Salzman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-08-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an annotated bibliography of 20th century books through 1983, and is a reworking of American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on the Civilization of the United States, published in 1982. Seeking to provide foreign nationals with a comprehensive and authoritative list of sources of information concerning America, it focuses on books that have an important cultural framework, and does not include those which are primarily theoretical or methodological. It is organized in 11 sections: anthropology and folklore; art and architecture; history; literature; music; political science; popular culture; psychology; religion; science/technology/medicine; and sociology. Each section contains a preface introducing the reader to basic bibliographic resources in that discipline and paragraph-length, non-evaluative annotations. Includes author, title, and subject indexes. ISBN 0-521-32555-2 (set) : $150.00.

Book Age of Betrayal

Download or read book Age of Betrayal written by Jack Beatty and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American political culture that, in the words of Rutherford B. Hayes, transformed “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people” into “a government by the corporations, of the corporations, and for the corporations.” A passionate, gripping, scandalous and sorrowing history of the triumph of wealth over commonwealth.

Book Coxey s Army

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  • Author : Benjamin F. Alexander
  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Release : 2015-05-01
  • ISBN : 1421416212
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book Coxey s Army written by Benjamin F. Alexander and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite running a gauntlet of ridicule, the marchers laid down a rough outline of what, some forty years later, emerged as the New Deal.

Book Harvard Guide to American History

Download or read book Harvard Guide to American History written by Frank Freidel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.

Book Publications of the American Folklife Center

Download or read book Publications of the American Folklife Center written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Age of Acquiescence

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  • Author : Steve Fraser
  • Publisher : Little, Brown
  • Release : 2015-02-17
  • ISBN : 0316333743
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book The Age of Acquiescence written by Steve Fraser and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? The Age of Acquiescence seeks to solve that mystery. Steve Fraser's account of national transformation brilliantly examines the rise of American capitalism, the visionary attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth, and the great surrender to today's delusional fables of freedom and the politics of fear. Effervescent and razorsharp, The Age of Acquiescence is provocative and fascinating.

Book Essays on the Age of Enterprise  1870 1900

Download or read book Essays on the Age of Enterprise 1870 1900 written by David Brody and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of the robber barons / Thomas C. Cochran -- The psychology and method of steelmaking / David Brody -- The beginnings of "big business" in American industry / Alfred D. Chandler -- The knights of labor and the trade unions, 1878-1886 / Gerald N. Grob -- The condition of the western farmer / Arthur F. Bentley -- Reconsidering the populists / Oscar Handlin -- Building American cities / Edward C. Kirkland -- The tenement comes of age / Roy Lubove -- Streecar suburbs / Sam B. Warner -- Urbanization, migration and social mobility / Stephan Thernstrom -- Middle-class families and urban violence / Richard Sennett -- Anna Howard Shaw : new approaches to feminism / James R. McGovern -- Bourbonism in Georgia / C. Vann Woodward -- Populist dreams and Negro rights : East Texas as a case study / Lawrence C. Goodwyn -- Booker T. Washington in biographical perspective / Louis R. Harlan -- The New York Mugwumps of 1884 : a profile / Gerald W. McFarland -- The political revolution of the 1890s : a behavioral interpretation / Paul Kleppner -- The new empire / Walter LaFeber -- William Graham Sumner, social Darwinist / Richard Hofstadter -- American Protestantism : from denominationalism to Americanism / Sidney E. Mead -- Sullivan's skyscrapers as the expression of nineteenth-century technology / Carl W. Condit.

Book Popularizing Pennsylvania

Download or read book Popularizing Pennsylvania written by Simon J. Bronner and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today his memory lives on in the legends he helped promote, such as that of the Indian princess "Nita-nee," for whom Central Pennsylvania's Nittany Mountain is supposedly named, and his instrumental role in creating Pennsylvania's noted system of parks and forests and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.