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Autore |
Mizruchi Susan L (Susan Laura) |
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Titolo |
The rise of multicultural America [[electronic resource] ] : economy and print culture, 1865-1915 / / Susan L. Mizruchi |
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Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0567-8 |
0-8078-8796-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cultural pluralism - United States - History - 19th century |
Cultural pluralism - United States - History - 20th century |
Cultural pluralism - Economic aspects - United States - History |
Capitalism - Social aspects - United States - History |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
United States Economic conditions 1865-1918 |
United States Emigration and immigration History |
United States Race relations History |
United States Intellectual life 1865-1918 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Remembering Civil War -- Racism as opportunity in the Reconstruction Era -- Cosmopolitanism -- Indian sacrifice in an age of progress -- Marketing culture -- Varieties of work -- Corporate America -- American Utopias. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Between the Civil War and World War I the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history. At the same time, the country experienced unparalleled rates of immigration. In The Rise of Multicultural America, Susan Mizruchi examines the convergence of these two extraordinary developments. No issue was more salient in postbellum American capitalist society, she argues, than the country's bewilderingly diverse population. This era marked the emergence of Americans' self-consciousness about what we today call |
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