{"product_id":"the-tyranny-of-change-america-in-the-progressive-era-18901920-9780813527994","title":"The Tyranny of Change America in the Progressive","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 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. America appeared headed into an unknown future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn lively, accessible prose, John Chambers incorporates the latest scholarship about the social, cultural, political, and economic changes which 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. He explores the dimensions of the new consumer society and the new information and entertainment industries: newspapers, magazines, the movies. Striding these pages are many of the prominent individuals who shaped the attitudes and institutions of modern America: J. P. Morgan and corporate reorganization; Jan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the 2000 Edition\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the Second Edition\u003cbr\u003e Crisis of the 1890s\u003cbr\u003e A New Kind of Growth\u003cbr\u003e The Age of Industrialism\u003cbr\u003e Prelude to the Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003e New Jobs, New Roles\u003cbr\u003e The Weakened Spring of Government\u003cbr\u003e Politics in the Depression Decade\u003cbr\u003e The Taste of Empire\u003cbr\u003e The Challenge of Change\u003cbr\u003e The Corporate Revolution\u003cbr\u003e The Great Merger Movement\u003cbr\u003e The Mass Production, Mass Consumption Society\u003cbr\u003e Changes in Work and the Work Force\u003cbr\u003e Productivity and Pain in Agriculture\u003cbr\u003e The New Corporate Economy\u003cbr\u003e A Changing Society and Culture\u003cbr\u003e A Growing Nation\u003cbr\u003e Class and Status in American Society\u003cbr\u003e Women, the Family, and Sexuality\u003cbr\u003e Modernism and Institutions: Schools, Hospitals, Places of Worship\u003cbr\u003e The Challenge of the City\u003cbr\u003e A New Mass Consumption Culture\u003cbr\u003e Aviation and the Promise of Technology\u003cbr\u003e Modernism in Thought and Art\u003cbr\u003e The Progressive Impulse\u003cbr\u003e The Great Light\u003cbr\u003e Progressives as Interventionists\u003cbr\u003e The Progressive Agenda\u003cbr\u003e The Development of Nationwide Reform\u003cbr\u003e Voluntarism as a Middle Way\u003cbr\u003e Reform in the Cities\u003cbr\u003e Progressivism in the States\u003cbr\u003e The Progressive Impulse\u003cbr\u003e The Washington Whirligig\u003cbr\u003e The Death of a President\u003cbr\u003e Theodore Roosevelt: The Warrior as President\u003cbr\u003e The Square Deal, 1901 -- 1909\u003cbr\u003e Taft versus the Insurgents, 1909 -- 1913\u003cbr\u003e Woodrow Wilson: The Scholar as Chief Executive\u003cbr\u003e The New Freedom, 1913 -- 1916\u003cbr\u003e Political Modernization\u003cbr\u003e Taking the Flag Overseas\u003cbr\u003e The Road to Interventionism\u003cbr\u003e Roosevelt's Big-Stick Diplomacy\u003cbr\u003e Taft's Dollar Diplomacy\u003cbr\u003e Wilson's Missionary Diplomacy\u003cbr\u003e World War I: U.S. Neutrality, 1914 -- 1916\u003cbr\u003e The Road to Belligerency, 1916 -- 1917\u003cbr\u003e The Debate over American Entry\u003cbr\u003e World War I and the Search for a New World Order, 1917 -- 1920\u003cbr\u003e America Goes to War\u003cbr\u003e Mobilizing the Home Front\u003cbr\u003e Workers and War: Organized Labor, Women, and Minorities\u003cbr\u003e Victory in France, Defeat in the Soviet Union\u003cbr\u003e The Diplomacy of Peacemaking and the Rejection of the League\u003cbr\u003e Domestic Discord and Repression\u003cbr\u003e The Meaning of the Progressive Era\u003cbr\u003e The Interventionist Impulse\u003cbr\u003e ``Modernization'' in World Perspective\u003cbr\u003e Cycles of Reform\u003cbr\u003e The Legacy of the Progressive Era\u003cbr\u003e The Progressive Era and the Nature of Modern America\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405774102871,"sku":"9780813527994","price":29.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813527994.jpg?v=1730493566","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-tyranny-of-change-america-in-the-progressive-era-18901920-9780813527994","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}