LEADER 02914oam 2200625I 450 001 9910821981003321 005 20240409215245.0 010 $a1-317-47737-5 010 $a0-7656-0596-1 010 $a1-315-70661-X 010 $a1-317-47738-3 010 $a0-585-38264-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315706610 035 $a(CKB)111004366775992 035 $a(EBL)1982496 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000101868 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11984569 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101868 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10047979 035 $a(PQKB)10349375 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1982496 035 $a(OCoLC)958107047 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366775992 100 $a20180706e20152000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerica in 1900 /$fNoel Jacob Kent 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 300 $aFirst published 2000 by M.E. Sharpe. 311 $a1-336-13983-8 311 $a0-7656-0595-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Sie?cle 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 Election 327 $aEpilogue Back to the Future: 1900 and 2000Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author 330 $aMany 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 com 606 $aNineteen hundred, A.D 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$y1865-1921 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1865-1918 615 0$aNineteen hundred, A.D. 676 $a973.8/8 676 $a973.88 676 $a973.88 700 $aKent$b Noel J.$01654127 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821981003321 996 $aAmerica in 1900$94005764 997 $aUNINA