The American 1890s
Subtitle: A Cultural Reader
Contributors: Susan Harris Smith (Editor); Melanie Dawson (Editor); Susan Harris Smith (Editor)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: June 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780822324768
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Cultural studies; Literary studies: 19th century; Other prose: 19th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Eighteen nineties; 20th Century American Literature; U.S. History - Late 19th Century (1877-1900); Literary Criticism; History - U.S.; English; History: American; USA; History; Americana; Social History; United States - 19th Century/Turn of the Century; American Studies; History, U.S.; Literary Studies/American Lite; Sources; United States; Books & Reading; 1865-1918; Civilization
First sentence: DURING A DECADE filled with abundant advice on self-improvement, a major debate focused on the means by which an individual pursued his or her own cultural position.