Daily Life in the Progressive Era
1st Edition
Published on 3. August 2011
320 pages
978-0-313-38185-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a historical examination of everyday life to reveal how and why Americans during the Progressive Era structured their world and made their lives meaningful.
The Progressive Era represented a tumultuous time for Americans as they attempted to come to terms with a rapidly emerging modern, urban, and industrial society, and ultimately the dislocations caused by World War I. Steven L. Piott's Daily Life in the Progressive Era tells the story of how all Americans-black and white, women and men, rural inhabitants and urban residents, workers and employers, consumers and producers-contended with new cultural attitudes, persistent racial and class tensions, and the power struggles of evolving classes.
This book provides a broad examination of American society between 1900 and 1920. Organized thematically, it covers rural and urban America, the changing nature of work, race relations, popular culture, citizen activism, and society during wartime. Appropriate for general readers as well as students of history, Daily Life in the Progressive Era provides an informed and compelling narrative history and analysis of daily life within the context of broad historical patterns.
The Progressive Era represented a tumultuous time for Americans as they attempted to come to terms with a rapidly emerging modern, urban, and industrial society, and ultimately the dislocations caused by World War I. Steven L. Piott's Daily Life in the Progressive Era tells the story of how all Americans-black and white, women and men, rural inhabitants and urban residents, workers and employers, consumers and producers-contended with new cultural attitudes, persistent racial and class tensions, and the power struggles of evolving classes.
This book provides a broad examination of American society between 1900 and 1920. Organized thematically, it covers rural and urban America, the changing nature of work, race relations, popular culture, citizen activism, and society during wartime. Appropriate for general readers as well as students of history, Daily Life in the Progressive Era provides an informed and compelling narrative history and analysis of daily life within the context of broad historical patterns.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Illustrations
25 bw illus
File size
2,71 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-313-38185-0 (9780313381850)
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Steven L. Piott
Daily Life in the Progressive Era
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08/2011
Greenwood Press
€74.70
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Steven L. Piott is professor of history at Clarion University in Clarion, PA.
Content
Series Foreword
Prologue
Chronology
1. Rural America
2. Workers
3. Popular Culture
4. Citizen Activism and Civic Engagement
5. The Progressive Era and Race
6. The First World War and American Society
Epilogue
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Prologue
Chronology
1. Rural America
2. Workers
3. Popular Culture
4. Citizen Activism and Civic Engagement
5. The Progressive Era and Race
6. The First World War and American Society
Epilogue
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
