America In 1900

Author : Noel J Kent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317477372

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America in 1900 by Noel J Kent Pdf

Many of the key issues concerning the United States as we enter the 21st century were already taking shape as we entered the 20th century. Business mergers, U.S. military intervention (in the Philippines), trade disputes with China and Europe, racial violence, high levels of crime, rising income gaps between rich and poor, volatile stock market prices, homelessness in the cities, the dangers of immigration, and the domination of money in elections -- all these major national issues in 1900 are familiar in some form to Americans today. The nation grappled for the first time with a series of complex new challenges: distribution of wealth and economic opportunity; the form race and ethnic relations should take in a country of increasing diversity; the relationship between big business and government; how the United States, as a new world power, should act overseas; and a host of others. Written in a fluid and highly readable style, Kent's ten chapters comprise a colorful narrative history of the major events of this pivotal year that continues to resonate a century later.

Author : Matthew Pratt Guterl
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674038059

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The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 by Matthew Pratt Guterl Pdf

With the social change brought on by the Great Migration of African Americans into the urban northeast after the Great War came the surge of a biracial sensibility that made America different from other Western nations. How white and black people thought about race and how both groups understood and attempted to define and control the demographic transformation are the subjects of this new book by a rising star in American history. An elegant account of the roiling environment that witnessed the shift from the multiplicity of white races to the arrival of biracialism, this book focuses on four representative spokesmen for the transforming age: Daniel Cohalan, the Irish-American nationalist, Tammany Hall man, and ruthless politician; Madison Grant, the patrician eugenicist and noisy white supremacist; W. E. B. Du Bois, the African-American social scientist and advocate of social justice; and Jean Toomer, the American pluralist and novelist of the interior life. Race, politics, and classification were their intense and troubling preoccupations in a world they did not create, would not accept, and tried to change.

Author : Marc Walter,Sabine Arqué
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Photography
ISBN : 3836567911

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1900 America by Marc Walter,Sabine Arqué Pdf

Produced by the Detroit Photographic Company between 1888 and 1924, these rediscovered Photochrom and Photostint postcard images are the very first color pictures of North America. An unparalleled voyage across peoples, places, and time unfolds in this sweeping panorama that ranges from Native American settlements to New York's Chinatown, from...

Author : Eric Avila
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190200602

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American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction by Eric Avila Pdf

The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of Americans have imagined themselves, their nation, and their relationship to the world and its peoples. This Very Short Introduction recounts the history of American culture and its creation by diverse social and ethnic groups. In doing so, it emphasizes the historic role of culture in relation to broader social, political, and economic developments. Across the lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality, as well as language, region, and religion, diverse Americans have forged a national culture with a global reach, inventing stories that have shaped a national identity and an American way of life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Noel J Kent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317477389

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America in 1900 by Noel J Kent Pdf

Many of the key issues concerning the United States as we enter the 21st century were already taking shape as we entered the 20th century. Business mergers, U.S. military intervention (in the Philippines), trade disputes with China and Europe, racial violence, high levels of crime, rising income gaps between rich and poor, volatile stock market prices, homelessness in the cities, the dangers of immigration, and the domination of money in elections -- all these major national issues in 1900 are familiar in some form to Americans today. The nation grappled for the first time with a series of complex new challenges: distribution of wealth and economic opportunity; the form race and ethnic relations should take in a country of increasing diversity; the relationship between big business and government; how the United States, as a new world power, should act overseas; and a host of others. Written in a fluid and highly readable style, Kent's ten chapters comprise a colorful narrative history of the major events of this pivotal year that continues to resonate a century later.

Author : Thomas J. Dorich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498595988

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Big Business in America by Thomas J. Dorich Pdf

This study analyzes the influence of big business on the economic, political, and social structure of twentieth-century America. The author examines the development of a mass production and consumption economy and argues that the corporation became a key institutional force in the United States.

Author : David B. Sachsman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351295062

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After the War by David B. Sachsman Pdf

After the War presents a panoramic view of social, political, and economic change in post-Civil War America by examining its journalism, from coverage of politics and Reconstruction to sensational reporting and images of the American people. The changes in America during this time were so dramatic that they transformed the social structure of the country and the nature of journalism. By the 1870s and 1880s, new kinds of daily newspapers had developed. New Journalism eventually gave rise to Yellow Journalism, resulting in big-city newspapers that were increasingly sensationalistic, entertaining, and designed to attract everyone. The images of the nation’s people as seen through journalistic eyes, from coverage of immigrants to stories about African American "Black fiends" and Native American "savages," tell a vibrant story that will engage scholars and students of history, journalism, and media studies.

Author : Judy Crichton
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : Nineteen hundred, A.D.
ISBN : 0783887647

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America 1900 by Judy Crichton Pdf

This sweeping narrative filled with humor and compassion opens New Year's Day 1900 and follows an eclectic group of men and women over the course of one remarkable year.

Author : Daniel R. Ernst
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199920860

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Tocqueville's Nightmare by Daniel R. Ernst Pdf

De Tocqueville once wrote that 'insufferable despotism' would prevail if America ever acquired a national administrative state. Between 1900 and 1940, radicals created vast bureaucracies that continue to trample on individual freedom. Ernst shows, to the contrary, that the nation's best corporate lawyers were among the creators of 'commission government'; that supporters were more interested in purging government of corruption than creating a socialist utopia; and that the principles of individual rights, limited government, and due process were designed into the administrative state.

Author : Andrew Carnegie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101097717

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The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings by Andrew Carnegie Pdf

Words of wisdom from American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie Focusing on Carnegie's most famous essay, "The Gospel of Wealth," this book of his writings, published here together for the first time, demonstrates the late steel magnate's beliefs on wealth, poverty, the public good, and capitalism. Carnegie's commitment to ensuring and promoting the welfare of his fellow human beings through philanthropic deeds ranged from donations to universities and museums to establishing more than 2,500 public libraries in the English-speaking world, and he gave away more than $350 million toward those efforts during his lifetime. The Gospel of Wealth is an eloquent testament to the importance of charitable giving for the public good. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Danny Kravitz
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781491441268

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Journey to America by Danny Kravitz Pdf

"Explores the waves of immigration into the United States in the early 1900s"--

Author : Kay Melchisedech Olson
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : China
ISBN : 9780736807937

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Chinese Immigrants, 1850-1900 by Kay Melchisedech Olson Pdf

Discusses the reasons Chinese people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes activities.

Author : Mark Twain,Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000315980

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The Gilded Age by Mark Twain,Charles Dudley Warner Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Nineteen hundred, A.D.
ISBN : 0765639890

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America in 1900 by Anonim Pdf

The author argues that the problems and issues that have defined America in the 20th century - such as business mergers, trade disputes and racial violence - were first revealed in their modern form in the year 1900. Ten chapters comprise a narrative history of the events of this pivotal year.

Author : James C. Mohr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1979-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199726875

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Abortion in America by James C. Mohr Pdf

Chronicles the incidence of abortion in nineteenthand twentieth-century America and the causes and processes of the profound social change which resulted, by 1900, in the nearly universal legal proscription of abortion.