num_pages: 352
description: At the end of Reconstruction, the lives of most Americans were still controlled by the values of the village, the conventional 19th-century beliefs in individualism, laissez-faire, progress, and a divinely ordained social system. But in the last decades of the century, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded this world-view. In The Search for Order, Robert Wiebe depicts the Progressive Era of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson as a search for organizing principles around which a new viable social order could be constructed in the new, modern, largely impersonal world. This subtle and sophisticated study combines the virtues of historical narrative, sociological analysis, and social criticism.
language: English
title: The Search for Order, 1877-1920
titlecomplete: The Search for Order, 1877-1920
genres: American, United States, The United States Of America, Political Science, Nonfiction, American History, 19th Century, Research, 20th Century, History
ratings_count: 419
series: The Making of America
publisher: Hill and Wang