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The Tyranny of Change - America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 (Paperback, New ed of 2 Revised ed)
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The Tyranny of Change - America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 (Paperback, New ed of 2 Revised ed)
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Between 1890 and 1920, the forces accompanying industrialization
sent the familiar nineteenth-century world plummeting toward
extinction. The traditional countryside with its villages and
family farms was eclipsed by giant corporations and sprawling
cities. In lively, accessible prose, John Chambers incorporates
into his book the latest scholarship about the social, cultural,
political, and economic changes that produced modern America. He
illuminates the experiences of blacks, Asians, Latinos, as well as
other working men and women in the cities and countryside as they
struggled to improve their lives in a transformed economy. Striding
these pages are many of the prominent individuals who shaped the
attitudes and institutions of modern America: J. P. Morgan and
corporate reorganization; Jane Addams and the origin of modern
social work; Mary Pickford and the new star-oriented motion picture
industry; and the radical labor challenge of "Big Bill" Haywood and
the "Wobblies." While recognizing a "progressive ethos"-a mixture
of idealistic vision and pragmatic reforms that characterized the
period-Chambers elaborates the role of civic volunteerism as well
as the state in achieving directed social change. He also
emphasizes the importance of radical and conservative forces in
shaping the so-called "Progressive Era." The revised edition of
this classic work has an updated bibliography and a new preface,
both of which incorporate particularly the new social and cultural
research of the past decade. John Whiteclay Chambers II is
professor of history at Rutgers University. He recently co-edited
The New Conscientious Objection and is the author of To Raise an
Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America.
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