A Sunday Between Wars: The Course of American Life from 1865 to 1917 - Couverture souple

Maddow, Ben

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393335631 ISBN 13 : 9780393335637

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 1979

Synopsis

The half century between the end of the Civil War and the Declaration of War in 1917 was quiet only in the general misconception. From the ordinary nineteenth-century American's point of w, it was extraordinarily *. There were military expeditions against Indian tribes and against Cuba and the Philippines. There was the general strike of 1877, the cruel failure of the unions, and the ides of immigration and their furious personal energy. There was the repeated quest for the Grail of materialism-gold and silver hidden in rock. This book examines, over all, and with some awe, the building of the great pyramid of American industrialization and measures its even more immense-and almost forgotten-human cost. Because it is written from the vantage point of those below, of those new to America and still poor, much of the text is taken from diaries, letters, and contemporary accounts by authors who will forever be unknown.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 1979
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393335631
• ISBN 13: 9780393335637
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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