The Age of Discontent
Georgetown University Press (Verlag)
9781647125707 (ISBN)
In American history, the prevailing narratives of the tumultuous late-nineteenth century focus on wealthy individuals and tycoons while downplaying the very high social and economic stresses they caused.
The Age of Discontent reveals that it was not the tycoons, but rather the laborers and farmers, who in a great uprising of popular democracy reinvented the nation for the emerging industrial world never imagined by the Founders. Facing conditions far worse than previously documented, they overcame the frayed social safety net and violent opposition to pull off what the labor leader John Mitchell has described as the "Second Emancipation," which addressed a dangerously tilted playing field with government programs and legislation. Based on meticulous primary source research and integrating music, photographs, artworks, and statistical data, this sweeping history places grassroots activists and reformers—many recognized for the first time—at center stage in a fascinating success story of perseverance and commitment.
Ralph Brauer taught American studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and he is the author of The Strange Death of Liberal America (2006). He received a PhD in American studies from the University of Minnesota.
Preface: Fables of Identity
Introduction: The Discontented
Part One: The World of the Discontented
Chapter 1. The Grittiest Generation
Chapter 2. Transition Stages Are Always Harsh
Chapter 3. Dark Corners
Chapter 4. A Threat of Endlessness
Part Two: The Deeds of the Discontented
Section One: The 1870s
Chapter 5. To Advance Agriculture
Chapter 6. To Win Fair Treatment for the Living
Chapter 7. From Some Lofty Height of Vision
Secton Two: The 1880s
Chapter 8. In All Things Essential
Chapter 9. To Help and Assist All Employed and Unemployed
Chapter 10. The Reinvention of America
Part Three: The Legacy of the Discontened
Chapter 11. Widening the Gates of Opportunity
Chapter 12. How Much Can You Buy
Conclusion: A Second Emancipation
Note on Sources and List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.09.2024 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Not illustrated |
| Verlagsort | Washington, DC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781647125707 / 9781647125707 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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