Book Description
Explores cultural, economic, and political events of the first two decades of the twentieth century.
Author : Jim Callan
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2005-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780816056361
Explores cultural, economic, and political events of the first two decades of the twentieth century.
Author : Noel J Kent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1317477383
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 complex new challenges: distribution of wealth and economic opportunity; the form race and ethnic relations should take in a country of increasing diversity; the relationship between big business and government; how the United States, as a new world power, should act overseas; and a host of others. Written in a fluid and highly readable style, Kent's ten chapters comprise a colorful narrative history of the major events of this pivotal year that continues to resonate a century later.
Author : Matthew Pratt Guterl
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 2002-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674038053
With the social change brought on by the Great Migration of African Americans into the urban northeast after the Great War came the surge of a biracial sensibility that made America different from other Western nations. How white and black people thought about race and how both groups understood and attempted to define and control the demographic transformation are the subjects of this new book by a rising star in American history. An elegant account of the roiling environment that witnessed the shift from the multiplicity of white races to the arrival of biracialism, this book focuses on four representative spokesmen for the transforming age: Daniel Cohalan, the Irish-American nationalist, Tammany Hall man, and ruthless politician; Madison Grant, the patrician eugenicist and noisy white supremacist; W. E. B. Du Bois, the African-American social scientist and advocate of social justice; and Jean Toomer, the American pluralist and novelist of the interior life. Race, politics, and classification were their intense and troubling preoccupations in a world they did not create, would not accept, and tried to change.
Author : Paul S. Boyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0199911657
This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migrations to the early twenty-first century when the United States loomed as a global power and comprised a complex multi-cultural society of more than 300 million people. The narrative is organized around major interpretive themes, with facts and dates introduced as needed to illustrate these themes. The emphasis throughout is on clarity and accessibility to the interested non-specialist.
Author : Judy Crichton
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 1999-10
Category : Nineteen hundred, A.D.
ISBN : 9780783887647
This sweeping narrative filled with humor and compassion opens New Year's Day 1900 and follows an eclectic group of men and women over the course of one remarkable year.
Author : Eric Avila
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 13,45 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0190200596
The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of Americans have imagined themselves, their nation, and their relationship to the world and its peoples. This Very Short Introduction recounts the history of American culture and its creation by diverse social and ethnic groups. In doing so, it emphasizes the historic role of culture in relation to broader social, political, and economic developments. Across the lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality, as well as language, region, and religion, diverse Americans have forged a national culture with a global reach, inventing stories that have shaped a national identity and an American way of life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Michael Shally-Jensen
Publisher : Salem Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Nineteen hundreds (Decade)
ISBN : 9781682171851
This new addition to the Defining Documents series profiles the first decade of the 20th century in America through careful, close analysis of historic documents from the era. Over thirty primary source documents are studied, delivering a thorough examination of this crucial period in American history.
Author : Deanne Durrett
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780737715460
The Industrial Age accompanied America into the Twentieth Century. In the 1900-1909 decade, factory jobs lured rural families to the cities. The first electric appliances were introduced into the American home and by the end of the decade a few automobiles were chugging along the rustic buggy paths. Many Americans had leisure time to enjoy the theater and Vaudeville was at its peak. Working conditions, however, were bad and workers needed laws to protect them. In addition, growing cities brought problems. President Theodore Roosevelt led the people who called themselves Progressives in efforts to right these wrongs. The programs established during the Roosevelt Era impacted America throughout the Twentieth Century.
Author : Marlene Targ Brill
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822534363
Outlines the important social, political, economic, cultural, and technological events that happened in the United States from 1900 to 1909.
Author : Vincent Tompkins
Publisher : American Decades
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810357266
Intended as a reference source for American social history, this volume discusses the people, events and ideas of the 1940s. After an introductory overview and chronology, subject chapters follow with subject-specific timelines and alphabetically arranged entries.