The Rise of Multicultural America (eBook)

Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915

Susan L. Mizruchi (Autor)

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2009
368 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-8796-7 (ISBN)

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Between the Civil War and World War I the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history. At the same time, the country experienced unparalleled rates of immigration. In The Rise of Multicultural America, Susan Mizruchi examines the convergence of these two extraordinary developments. No issue was more salient in postbellum American capitalist society, she argues, than the countrys bewilderingly diverse population. This era marked the emergence of Americans' self-consciousness about what we today call multiculturalism.Mizruchi approaches this complex development from the perspective of print culture, demonstrating how both popular and elite writers played pivotal roles in articulating the stakes of this national metamorphosis. In a period of widespread literacy, writers assumed a remarkable cultural authority as best-selling works of literature and periodicals reached vast readerships and immigrants could find newspapers and magazines in their native languages. Mizruchi also looks at the work of journalists, photographers, social reformers, intellectuals, and advertisers. Identifying the years between 1865 and 1915 as the founding era of American multiculturalism, Mizruchi provides a historical context that has been overlooked in contemporary debates about race, ethnicity, immigration, and the dynamics of modern capitalist society. Her analysis recuperates a legacy with the potential to both invigorate current battle lines and highlight points of reconciliation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 21 illus., notes, index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abraham Cahan • Abraham Lincoln • Advertising • Albion Tourgee • Alexander Gardner • Alice James • American Federation of Labor • American Negro Academy • andrew carnegie • Appomattox • Atlantic Monthly • authorship • Autobiography • Big Business • Black America • Blacks • Booker T. Washington • Boston • Brand names • business • Capitalism • Century Magazine • Charles Alexander Eastman • Charles Alexander Eastman / • Charles Chesnutt • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • Chicago • Chicago Tribune • Chicago World's Columbian Exhibition • Chicago World's Fair • Christian Science • Civil War • Class • cold harbor • Colored American Magazine • Commercialism • Constance Fenimore Woolson • consumption • Cosmopolitanism • Cosmopolitan Magazine • Crisis • Darwinism • Dawes Act • Death • Doolittle Report • Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill • economy • Edith Wharton • Editors • Education • edward bellamy • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps • Ellen Glasgow • Ellis Island • Ely S. Parker • Emancipation Proclamation • Everybody's Magazine • fall river • Fiction • Ford Model T. (1908) • Frances Harper • frank norris • Gender • Gettysburg • Great Chicago Fire • Great Railroad Strike • Harper and Brothers Publishing • Harper's Magazine • Harriet Jacobs • Haymarket Riot • Helen Hunt Jackson • Helen Keller • Henry Demarest Lloyd • Henry George • Henry James • Henry Lewis Morgan • Homestead Act • Homestead Strike • Horatio Alger • Ida B. Wells • Ida Tarbell • Immigrants • Indians • Industry • Isaac Kahn Friedman • Jack London • Jacob Riis • James Weldon Johnson • Jane Addams • Jewish Daily Forward • Jews • john d. rockefeller • John Hay • John Spargo • Journals & Newspapers • Journals and Newspapers • kate chopin • King Camp Gilette • Ku Klux Klan • Labor • Ladies Home Journal • L. Frank Baum • Literacy • lynchings • Magazines • Manufacture • Manufacturing • Marie Ruiz de Burton • Market & Marketing • Market and Marketing • Mark Twain • Mary Antin • Mary Baker Eddy • Mary Wilkins Freeman • Matthew Brady • McClure's Magazine • Meat Trust • Memoirs • Migration • Mobility • Modernity • Munsey's Magazine • NAACP • Native American • Nebraska • New York • New York Tribune • North American Review • Northern Pacific Railroad • Novels • Oil Trust • ouisa May Alcott • Outlook • Overland Monthly • Owen Wister • Pa. • Pacific Railroad • Paige Compositor • Panic of 1873 • Panic of 1893 • Pauline Hopkins • paul laurence dunbar • Pears Soap • Pemberton Mill Collapse • photography • Plessy v. Ferguson • political pamphlets • professionalization • profiteering • progressivism • Publishing • Pullman Strike • Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 • Putnam's Magazine • Race & Ethnicity • race and ethnicity • race purification • Railroads • Railroad Trust • Realism • Reconstruction & Slavery • Reconstruction and Slavery • Religion & Spirituality • religion and spirituality • Sacrifice • Samuel Gompers • Samuel S. McClure • San Francisco • San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 • Sapolio Soap • Sarah Winnemuca Hopkins • Satire • Saturday Evening Post • Scranton • Scribner's Magazine • Sherman Antitrust Law • SOAP • Social Science • Society of American Indians founded 1911 • Standardization • Standard Oil Company • Stephen Crane • St. Louis • St. Louis World's Fair • The Nation • Theodore Dreiser • Theodore Roosevelt • Thorstein Veblen • Tobacco Trust • Travel • Travel writing • Trusts • Tuskeegee • Ulysses S. Grant • Upton Sinclair • Urban life • U.S. Steel • U.S. v. Kagema • Utopianism • Virgina • Virginia • Walter Dill Scott • Walt Whitman • W.E.B. Du Bois • Willa Cather • William Dean Howells • William James • Women • Wounded Knee Massacre • zane grey • Zitkala-Sa
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-8796-X / 080788796X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-8796-7 / 9780807887967