Daily Life in the Progressive Era

Informationen zum Autor Steven L. Piott is emeritus professor of history at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Steven Piott, Steven L. Piott, Piott Steven L.
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2011
• EAN: 9780313381843
• ISBN: 978-0-313-38184-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Daily Life Through History; Daily Life through History; Daily Life
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), American History; Culture; Popular Culture