Age of Charisma - Leaders, Followers, and Emotions in American Society, 1870-1940

Informationen zum Autor Jeremy C. Young is an assistant professor of history at Dixie State University, Utah. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Social History, the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Forest History Today, and a dozen newspapers including the Chicago Sun-Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Seattle Times. Klappentext This book demonstrates how the modern relationship between leaders and followers in America grew out of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century charismatic social movements. Zusammenfassung The Age of Charisma examines a uniquely emotional type of social movement based on 'personal magnetism' which dominated American society from the Gilded Age to the eve of World War II. This book is unique in its ability to address political! social! cultural! and intellectual history under the single banner of charisma. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Magnetic America: personal magnetism in American culture, 1870-1900; 2. Command performances: leaders and their technologies, 1890-1910; 3. Transformations: the follower experience, 1890-1920; 4. Competing visions: imagining charisma and social change, 1890-1910; 5. Changing society: the rise and fall of progressive charisma, 1910-20; 6. End of an age: from magnetism to mass communication, 1920-40; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy C. Young, Jeremy C. (Dixie State University Young, Young Jeremy C.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9781107114623
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11462-3
• No. of pages: 356
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas