The reckless decade: America in the 1890s
H.W. Brands
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- University of Chicago Press ed.
- Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002
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- Summary:
- Just as we do today, Americans of the 1890s faced changes in economics, politics, society, and technology that led to wrenching and sometimes violent tensions between rich and poor, capital and labor, white and black, East and West. In The Reckless Decade, H.W. Brands demonstrates how we can learn about the contradictions that lie at the heart of America today by looking at them through the lens of the 1890s.
- Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Coming of age, or coming apart?
- Lost frontier
- Morgan we trust
- How the other half lived
- Blood on the water
- Matter with Kansas
- Plessy v. Crow
- Cross of gold, tongue of Silver
- Democratic imperialism
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.
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- Languages:
- English
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- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [352]-360) and index. - Physical Description:
- 375 pages ; 23 cm
- Call Numbers:
- E661 .B795 2002
- ISBNs:
- 0226071162 (pbk., alk. paper)
9780226071169 (pbk., alk. paper) - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2001057009
- OCLC Numbers:
- 48466711