A very different age
Subtitle: Americans of the progressive era
By: Steven J. Diner.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Progressivism (United States politics); United States -- History -- 1865-1921.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
Description: Steven J. Diner, drawing on the rich scholarship of recent social history, focuses on how Americans of diverse backgrounds and at all economic levels responded to the Progressive Era.

Industrial workers and farmers, recent immigrants and African Americans, white-collar workers and small entrepreneurs had to reinvent the ways they managed their work, family, community, and leisure as the forces of change swept away familiar modes of economic life, rearranged hierarchies of social status, and redefined the relationship of citizens to their government. This is a striking new interpretation of a crucial epoch in our nation's history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-299) and index.