Essays on the age of enterprise, 1870-1900
By: edited by David Brody
Series: Essays in American history; Norton essays in American history
Publisher: Dryden Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Hinsdale, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780030844065
Subjects: Social conditions; Economic conditions; History; Histoire; Conditions sociales; Conditions économiques; Economic history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Entrepreneurs; title: The legend of the robber barons / Thomas C. Cochran; title: The psychology and method of steelmaking / David Brody; title: The beginnings of "big business" in American industry / Alfred D. Chandler; title: Part II: Workers and farmers; title: The Knights of Labor and the trade unions, 1878-1886 / Gerald N Grob; title: The condition of the western farmer / Arthur F. Bentley; title: Reconsidering the populists / Oscar Handlin; title: Part III: City dwellers; title: Building American cities / Edward C. Kirkland; title: The tenement comes of age / Roy Lubove; title: Streetcar suburbs / Sam B. Warner; title: Part IV: Men and women; title: Urbanization, migration and social mobility / Stephan Thernstrom; title: Middle class families and urban violence / Richard Sennett; title: Anna Howard Shaw: New approaches to feminism / James R. McGovern; title: Part V: Southerns and black men; title: Bourbonism in Georgia / C. Van Woodward Populist dreams and negro rights: East Texas as a case study / Lawrence C. Goodwyn; title: Booker T. Washington in biographical perspectives / Louis R. Harlan; title: Part VI: Citizens and politicans; title: The New York Mugwumps of 1884: A profile / Gerald W. McFarland; title: The political revolution of the 1890s: A behavioral interpretation / Paul Kleppner; title: The new empire / Walter LeFeber; title: Part VII: Culture bearers; title: William Graham Sumner, social Darwinist / Richard Hofstadter; title: American Protestantism: From denominationalism to Americanism / Sidney E. Mead; title: Sullivan's skyscrapers as the expression of 19th century technology / Carl W. Condit.