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The rise of multicultural America : economy and print culture, 1865-1915 / / Susan L. Mizruchi



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Autore: Mizruchi Susan L (Susan Laura) Visualizza persona
Titolo: The rise of multicultural America : economy and print culture, 1865-1915 / / Susan L. Mizruchi Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, 2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
Disciplina: 305.800973
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: United States Economic conditions 1865-1918
United States Emigration and immigration History
United States Race relations History
United States Intellectual life 1865-1918
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 multiculturalism.Mizruchi approaches this complex development from the
Titolo autorizzato: The rise of multicultural America  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4696-0567-8
0-8078-8796-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910815105003321
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