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Our times :America at the birth of the twentieth century
by Dan Rather  Publisher Comments A powerful social history of America from the 1890s to the 1920s, Our Times is "one of the most valuable contemporary histories any nation has been fortunate enough to possess" (St. Louis Globe-Democrat)....
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Facing facts :realism in American thought and culture, 1850-1920
by David E Shi Publisher Comments "A true poem," Walt Whitman proclaimed in 1852, "is the daily newspaper"--and American culture was never the same again. Like a blast of cold air in a stuffy drawing room, Whitman's campaign to give artistic representation to gritty reality shocked the...
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The Dream of a New Social Order: Popular Magazines in America, 1893-1914
by Matthew Schneirov Synopsis This lively book explores how magazines became the first national mass medium in the United States and how they expressed a new American culture based on the dream of a better future. Matthew Schneirov argues that the birth of such popular magazines as...
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Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865
by Richard D Brown Publisher Comments Brown here explores America's first communications revolution--the revolution that made printed goods and public oratory widely available and, by means of the steamboat, railroad and telegraph, sharply accelerated the pace at which information travelled....
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Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South
by Matthew Hild
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America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat (Anthem Travel Classics)
by Wu Tingfang
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Devil of the Domestic Sphere: Temperance, Gender, and Middle-Class Ideology, 1800-1860 (Drugs and Alcohol Contested Histories)
by Scott C. Martin
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Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock & Family Reproduction in Victorian America
by Nicola Beisel Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-268) and index....
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The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
by Susan Scheckel Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-191) and index....
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Reluctant Modernism American Thought &
by George Cotkin TOC The "tangled bank" of evolution and religion -- The experiences of American philosophy -- Anthropology, progress, and racism -- Woman as intellectual and artist -- Consuming culture -- The American fin de siáecle....
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Managers and Workers: Origins of the Twentieth-Century Factory System in the United States, 1880-1920
by Daniel Nelson Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-236) and index....
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Rudeness & civility :manners in nineteenth-century urban America
by John F Kasson Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-293)....
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Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America
by Anne Baker Publisher Comments As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion. Heartless Immensity tells the story of how Americans...
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The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910
by Caroline Winterer Synopsis "A conscientious and important history of the study of classicism in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries... Ms. Winterer sheds light on the virtual disappearance of the ancients from the modern imagination." -- Wall Street Journal "It...
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Hits at American Whims and Hints for Home Use
by Frederic W Sawyer
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Patrons & Patriotism the Encouragement
by Lillian B Miller
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Street Thoughts
by H M Dexter
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Saturday Evening Post Reflections of a D
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The new nation, 1800-1845
by John Mayfield
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