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Autore: Kent Noel J. Visualizza persona
Titolo: America in 1900 / / Noel Jacob Kent Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2015
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
Disciplina: 973.8/8
973.88
Soggetto topico: Nineteen hundred, A.D
Soggetto geografico: United States History 1865-1921
United States Civilization 1865-1918
Note generali: First published 2000 by M.E. Sharpe.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 Election
Epilogue Back to the Future: 1900 and 2000Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Sommario/riassunto: Many 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
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ISBN: 1-317-47737-5
0-7656-0596-1
1-315-70661-X
1-317-47738-3
0-585-38264-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910821981003321
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