02871oam 2200601I 450 991077899700332120230807203638.01-317-47737-50-7656-0596-11-315-70661-X1-317-47738-30-585-38264-610.4324/9781315706610 (CKB)111004366775992(EBL)1982496(SSID)ssj0000101868(PQKBManifestationID)11984569(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101868(PQKBWorkID)10047979(PQKB)10349375(MiAaPQ)EBC1982496(OCoLC)958107047(EXLCZ)9911100436677599220180706e20152000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerica in 1900 /Noel Jacob KentLondon :Routledge,2015.1 online resource (264 p.)First published 2000 by M.E. Sharpe.1-336-13983-8 0-7656-0595-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I In the Year Double-Zero; Chapter 1 New Year's Day 1900; Chapter 2 The Invincible Economy; Chapter 3 American Dreaming: The Power, the Glory, and the Chaos; Part II Fin de Siècle Dilemmas; Chapter 4 Kings of America; Chapter 5 The Great Game; Chapter 6 Other Americans; Chapter 7 White Man's Country; Chapter 8 Black in White Man's Country; Chapter 9 "A New Power of the First Order"; Chapter 10 Of Trusts, Islands, Dinner Pails, and an ElectionEpilogue Back to the Future: 1900 and 2000Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the AuthorMany 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 comNineteen hundred, A.DUnited StatesHistory1865-1921United StatesCivilization1865-1918Nineteen hundred, A.D.973.8/8973.88Kent Noel J.1486305MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778997003321America in 19003705740UNINA