The Gilded Age And Dawn Of The Modern

Author : Jeffrey H. Hacker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317456629

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The Gilded Age and Dawn of the Modern by Jeffrey H. Hacker Pdf

The Gilded Age and Dawn of the Modern: 1877-1919, a new title in the six-title series History Through Literature: American Voices, American Themes, provides insights and analysis regarding the history, literature, and cultural climate of the Gilded Age and early twentieth century. It brings together informational text and primary documents that cover notable historic events and trends, authors, literary works, social movements, and cultural and artistic themes. The Gilded Age and Dawn of the Modern begins with an interdisciplinary chronology that identifies, defines, and places in context the notable historical events, literary works, authors' lives, and cultural landmarks of the period. This is followed by a comprehensive overview essay that summarizes the era's major historical trends, social movements, cultural and artistic themes, literary voices, and enduring works as reflections of each other and the spirit of the times. The core content comprises 20-30 articles on representative writers of the period, along with excerpts from essential literary works that highlight a historical theme, sociocultural movement, or the confluence of the two. These excerpts serve the Common Core emphasis on "informational texts from a broad range of cultures and periods", including "stories, drama, poetry, and literary nonfiction".

Author : Jeffrey H. Hacker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1317456602

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The Gilded Age and Dawn of the Modern by Jeffrey H. Hacker Pdf

The Gilded Age and Dawn of the Modern: 1877-1919, a new title in the six-title series History Through Literature: American Voices, American Themes, provides insights and analysis regarding the history, literature, and cultural climate of the Gilded Age and early twentieth century. It brings together informational text and primary documents that cover notable historic events and trends, authors, literary works, social movements, and cultural and artistic themes.

Author : Bruce J. Evensen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195162448

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God's Man for the Gilded Age by Bruce J. Evensen Pdf

At his death on the eve of the 20th century, D.L. Moody was widely recognized as one of the most beloved and important of men in 19th-century America. A Chicago shoe salesman with a fourth grade education, Moody rose from obscurity to become God's man for the Gilded Age. He was the Billy Graham of his day--indeed it could be said that Moody invented the system of evangelism that Graham inherited and perfected. Bruce J. Evensen focuses on the pivotal years during which Moody established his reputation on both sides of the Atlantic through a series of highly popular and publicized campaigns. In four short years Moody forged the bond between revivalism and the mass media that persists to this day. Beginning in Britain in 1873 and extending across America's urban landscape, first in Brooklyn and then in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and Boston, Moody used the power of prayer and publicity to stage citywide crusades that became civic spectacles. Modern newspapers, in the grip of economic depression, needed a story to stimulate circulation and found it in Moody's momentous mission. The evangelist and the press used one another in creating a sense of civic excitement that manufactured the largest crowds in municipal history. Critics claimed this machinery of revival was man-made. Moody's view was that he'd rather advertise than preach to empty pews. He brought a businessman's common sense to revival work and became, much against his will, a celebrity evangelist. The press in city after city made him the star of the show and helped transform his religious stage into a communal entertainment of unprecedented proportions. In chronicling Moody's use of the press and their use of him, Evensen sheds new light on a crucial chapter in the history of evangelicalism and demonstrates how popular religion helped form our modern media culture.

Author : David Remnick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Popular culture
ISBN : IND:30000079302463

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The New Gilded Age by David Remnick Pdf

In this expanded paperback edition, "The New Yorker's" best writers--including Joan Didion, John Updike, Jonathan Harr, and others--express how our unprecedented bubble economy has changed the ways in which we live today.

Author : Yuen Yuen Ang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478601

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China's Gilded Age by Yuen Yuen Ang Pdf

Unbundles corruption into different types, examining corruption as access money in China through a comparative-historical lens.

Author : Richard A. Hogarty
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0871692430

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Leon Abbett's New Jersey by Richard A. Hogarty Pdf

Following in the succession of his 25 predecessors, Leon Abbett twice served as governor of New Jersey in the late 19nth century. A lifelong Democrat, he was a dynamic and visionary party leader who guided the citizens of New Jersey into a new urban industrial age. While he was a machine politician and party boss, he was also a notable reformer. That was a formidable combination for his time. Grappling with a series of hot political issues and braving the passions and divisions spawned by the Civil War, Abbett was one of the ablest and most intriguing men ever to be governor. Several new ideas were transformed into public policy during his tenure. Both in style and strategy, Abbett represented a sharp break from his predecessors. He was a prime example of a governor who both in crisis and in ordinary times broadened gubernatorial authority. He became both a policy and party leader. In this context, he was an important forerunner to a type of governor that had not yet appeared on the American political stage.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Editoriale Jaca Book
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8816720557

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Storia della storiografia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher McKnight Nichols
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674061187

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Promise and Peril by Christopher McKnight Nichols Pdf

Spreading democracy abroad or protecting business at home: this book offers a new look at the history of the contest between isolationalism and internationalism that is as current as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and as old as America itself, with profiles of the people, policies, and events that shaped the debate.

Author : Christopher McKnight Nichols,Nancy C. Unger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119775706

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A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era by Christopher McKnight Nichols,Nancy C. Unger Pdf

A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era presents a collection of new historiographic essays covering the years between 1877 and 1920, a period which saw the U.S. emerge from the ashes of Reconstruction to become a world power. The single, definitive resource for the latest state of knowledge relating to the history and historiography of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Features contributions by leading scholars in a wide range of relevant specialties Coverage of the period includes geographic, social, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, ethnic, racial, gendered, religious, global, and ecological themes and approaches In today’s era, often referred to as a “second Gilded Age,” this book offers relevant historical analysis of the factors that helped create contemporary society Fills an important chronological gap in period-based American history collections

Author : N. Lee Orr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313343094

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Music of the Gilded Age by N. Lee Orr Pdf

America's Gilded Age was a time of great musical evolution. As the country continued to develop a musical style apart from Europe, its church and religious music and opera took on new forms. Music-as-entertainment also evolved, with marching bands at public events and the new musicals in theaters. This volume presents the composers, musicians, songwriters, instruments and musical forms that uniquely identify the Gilded Age. Chapters include: Concerts and Symphony orchestras; Grand Opera; Composers, Critics, and Conservatories; Amateurs and Music at Home; Sacred Music, Black and White; Ragtime, Vaudeville, and the American Musical Stage; Music, Politics, and the Progressive Movement; and Music Industries and Technology

Author : John D. Buenker,Joseph Buenker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1412 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317471684

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Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era by John D. Buenker,Joseph Buenker Pdf

Spanning the era from the end of Reconstruction (1877) to 1920, the entries of this reference were chosen with attention to the people, events, inventions, political developments, organizations, and other forces that led to significant changes in the U.S. in that era. Seventeen initial stand-alone essays describe as many themes.

Author : Leanne M. Zalewski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501358326

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The New York Market for French Art in the Gilded Age, 1867–1893 by Leanne M. Zalewski Pdf

This transatlantic study analyses a missing chapter in the history of art collecting, the first art market bubble in the United States. In the decades following the Civil War, French art monopolized art collections across the United States. During this “Gilded Age picture rush,” the commercial art system-art dealers, galleries, auction houses, exhibitions, museums, art journals, press coverage, art histories, and collection catalogues-established a strong foothold it has not relinquished to this day. In addition, a pervasive concern for improving aesthetics and providing the best contemporary art to educate the masses led to the formation not only of private art collections, but also of institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and to the publication of art histories. Richly informed by collectors' and art dealers' diaries, letters, stock books, journals, and hitherto neglected art histories, The New York Market for French Art in the Gilded Age, 1867-1893 offers a fresh perspective on this trailblazing era.

Author : James Crabtree
Publisher : Crown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781524760076

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The Billionaire Raj by James Crabtree Pdf

A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class in a radically unequal society India is the world’s largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China’s. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly shared, and the country’s top 1% now own nearly 60% of its wealth. In megacities like Mumbai, where half the population live in slums, the extraordinary riches of India’s new dynasties echo the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers of America's Gilded Age, funneling profits from huge conglomerates into lifestyles of conspicuous consumption. James Crabtree’s The Billionaire Raj takes readers on a personal journey to meet these reclusive billionaires, fugitive tycoons, and shadowy political power brokers. From the sky terrace of the world’s most expensive home to impoverished villages and mass political rallies, Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers, revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a combustible backdrop of aspiration, class, and caste. The Billionaire Raj is a vivid account of a divided society on the cusp of transformation—and a struggle that will shape not just India’s future, but the world’s.

Author : Mansel G. Blackford,Kathel Austin Kerr
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39076002405939

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Business Enterprise in American History by Mansel G. Blackford,Kathel Austin Kerr Pdf

Timelines and examples from well-known companies help students gain a better understanding of the important connections among public policy and businesses, as well as a comparative understanding of business history over time and in recent decades.

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780190917968

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The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies by Frederick Luis Aldama Pdf

Comic book studies has developed as a solid academic discipline, becoming an increasingly vibrant field in the United States and globally. A growing number of dissertations, monographs, and edited books publish every year on the subject, while world comics represent the fastest-growing sector of publishing. The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies looks at the field systematically, examining the history and evolution of the genre from a global perspective. This includes a discussion of how comic books are built out of shared aesthetic systems such as literature, painting, drawing, photography, and film. The Handbook brings together readable, jargon-free essays written by established and emerging scholars from diverse geographic, institutional, gender, and national backgrounds. In particular, it explores how the term "global comics" has been defined, as well the major movements and trends that will drive the field in the years to come. Each essay will help readers understand comic books as a storytelling form grown within specific communities, and will also show how these forms exist within what can be considered a world system of comics.