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  • Edmund J. James and the Making of the Modern University of Illinois, 1904-1920

    de Winton U Solberg, J. David Hoeveler ...
    In 1904, Edmund J. James inherited the leadership of an educational institution in search of an identity. His sixteen-year tenure transformed the University of Illinois from an industrial college to a major state university that fulfilled his vision of a center for scientific investigation.Winton U. Solberg and J. David Hoeveler provide an account of a pivotal time in the university’s evolution. A ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • The Postmodernist Turn

    American Thought and Culture in the 1970s

    de J. David Hoeveler, Jr. ...
    Series series American Thought and Culture
    During the 1970s, the United States became the world's preeminent postindustrial society. The new conditions changed the way Americans lived and worked, and even their perceptions of reality. Americans struggled to find their place in a world where symbol became more important than fact, appearance more important than reality, where image supplanted essence.In this reassessment of a little studied ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • The Evolutionists

    American Thinkers Confront Charles Darwin, 1860–1920

    de J. David Hoeveler ...
    Series series Critical Issues in American History
    Charles Darwin published his monumental treatise The Origin of Species in 1859. It has proved to be a major contribution to scientific theory but highly contentious as well. In the United States, more than in any other country, Darwin's theory of evolution became, and remains, a matter of "political" controversy, from the famous "monkey trial" of 1925 to efforts, even in the 21st century, to ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

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  • Country of Lords

    Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America

    de Kim Phillips-Fein ...
    **An Independent Press BestsellerA Pulitzer-finalist historian charts a 250-year-old intellectual and political tradition—the conviction that all Americans are NOT created equal.**The story of American history is often told as a hard-won march toward the promise of equality, derived from Thomas Jefferson’s famous proclamation that “all men are created equal.”But this inspiring story obscures a ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

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  • Mapping the Nation

    History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America

    de Susan Schulten ...
    "A compelling read" that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery ( Journal of American History).In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators ... Leer más

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  • Making Whiteness

    The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

    de Grace Elizabeth Hale ...
    Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity. In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War, white southerners re ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • A Fierce Discontent

    The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in A

    de Michael McGerr ...
    The Progressive Era, a few brief decades around the turn of the last century, still burns in American memory for its outsized personalities: Theodore Roosevelt, whose energy glinted through his pince-nez; Carry Nation, who smashed saloons with her axe and helped stop an entire nation from drinking; women suffragists, who marched in the streets until they finally achieved the vote; Andrew Carnegie ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Raising Racists

    The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South

    de Kristina DuRocher ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern History
    White southerners recognized that the perpetuation of segregation required whites of all ages to uphold a strict social order—especially the young members of the next generation. White children rested at the core of the system of segregation between 1890 and 1939 because their participation was crucial to ensuring the future of white supremacy. Their socialization in the segregated South offers an ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Behind the Mask of Chivalry

    The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan

    de Nancy K. MacLean ...
    On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta. With a flag fluttering in the wind beside them, a Bible open to the twelfth chapter of Romans, and a flaming cross to light the night sky above, William Joseph Simmons and his disciples proclaimed themselves the new Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, named for the ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Illiberal Reformers

    Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era

    de Thomas C. Leonard ...
    The pivotal and troubling role of progressive-era economics in the shaping of modern American liberalismIn Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism. But ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

  • The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920

    Second Edition

    de Daniel T. Rodgers ...
    How the rise of machines changed the way we think about work—and about success.The phrase "a strong work ethic" conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in America's Puritan heritage, perceptions of work ethic have actually undergone multiple ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Mystic Chords of Memory

    The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

    de Michael Kammen ...
    Mystic Chords of Memory"Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history . . . insightful and sardonic."—Washington Post Book WorldIn this ground-breaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine ... Leer más

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