Author: George Edwin MowryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The Progressive Era, 1900-20: the Reform Persuasion
Author: George Edwin MowryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920
Author: John DittmerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252008139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"This is the best treatment scholars have of black life in a southern state at the beginning of the twentieth century." -- Howard N. Rabinowitz, Journal of American History "The author shows clearly and forcefully the ways in which this [white] system abused and controlled the black lower caste in Georgia." -- Lester C. Lamon, American Historical Review. "Dittmer has a faculty for lucid exposition of complicated subjects. This is especially true of the sections on segregation, racial politics, disfranchisement, woman's suffrage and prohitibion, the neo-slavery in agriculture, and the racial violence whose threat and reality hung like a pall over all of Georgia throughout the period." -- Donald L. Grant, Georgia Historical Quarterly.
The Progressive Movement, 1900-1920
Author: George Edwin MowryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Progressivism (U.S. politics)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
American History: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Paul S. BoyerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199911657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
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.
Women in the Workplace
Author: Dorothy SchneiderPublisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The scope is confined to women's paid work, excluding contributions made on the home front. A 16-page introduction chronicling the history of women and work in America is followed by entries in A-Z arrangement, each with see also references and at least one bibliographic citation. Most entries are biographical, but others discuss issues, themes, categories of work, or organizations and institutions, e.g. academic women, apprentices, architects, artists, sexual harassment, nontraditional occupations, White House Conference on Children (1909). This reference is useful in particular for access to information about some lesser known important women. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality
Author: Edward O'DonnellPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231539266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839–1897) published a radical critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. Progress and Poverty (1879), which became a surprise best-seller, offered a provocative solution for preserving these traditions while preventing the amassing of wealth in the hands of the few: a single tax on land values. George's writings and years of social activism almost won him the mayor's seat in New York City in 1886. Though he lost the election, his ideas proved instrumental to shaping a popular progressivism that remains essential to tackling inequality today. Edward T. O'Donnell's exploration of George's life and times merges labor, ethnic, intellectual, and political history to illuminate the early militant labor movement in New York during the Gilded Age. He locates in George's rise to prominence the beginning of a larger effort by American workers to regain control of the workplace and obtain economic security and opportunity. The Gilded Age was the first but by no means the last era in which Americans confronted the mixed outcomes of modern capitalism. George's accessible, forward-thinking ideas on democracy, equality, and freedom have tremendous value for contemporary debates over the future of unions, corporate power, Wall Street recklessness, government regulation, and political polarization.
The Progressive Era, 1900-1920
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
American Women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920
Author: Dorothy SchneiderPublisher:
ISBN: 9780816025138
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Explores the changing role of women in American society in the early years of the twentieth century
The Tyranny of Change
Author: John Whiteclay ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Incorporates the social, cultural, political and economic changes which produced modern America; illuminates the experiences of working men and women in the cities and countryside as they struggled to improve their lives in a transformed economy.
Political Reforms
Author: Kate WingatePublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781404208537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Discussion of political reforms undertaken in the United States in the early twentieth century, how they were undertaken, and why.