America in the Age of the Titans : : The Progressive Era and World War I / / Sean Dennis Cashman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Cashman, Sean Dennis,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1988]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 1988
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Detailing the events of the Progressive Era and World War I (1901-20), America in the Age of the Titans is the only interdisciplinary history covering this period currently available. The book contains the results of research into primary sources an drecent scholarship with an emphases on leading personalities and anecdotes about them. Sean Dennis Cashman's sequesl to America in the Gilded Age gives special attention to industry and inventions, and social and cultural history. He covers developments in science, technology, and industry; the Progressive movement and the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, immigration, the new woman, and labor, including the Industrial Workers of the World and the Great Red Scare; the transportation and communications revolution in radio and motion pictures; the cultural contribuation of artists, architects, and creatice writers; and America's foreign policies across the world. Written in a lively, accessible style with over sixty illustrations, this book is an excellent introduction to these momentous years. It provides an assessment of the contributions of the titans - political, scientific, and industrial.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Inventing America: Expanding Industry -- CHAPTER TWO. Bear Necessities: Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal -- CHAPTER THREE. The New Nationalism and the New Freedom: The Triumph of Woodrow Wilson -- CHAPTER FOUR. A Future out of the Past The New Immigration -- CHAPTER FIVE. Labor in the Progressive Era -- CHAPTER SIX. The New Woman -- CHAPTER SEVEN. History Written in Lightning: The Transportation Revolution of Henry Ford and the Wright Brothers -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Words Without Pictures; Pictures Without Words: Radio and Movies -- CHAPTER NINE. On the Rise: Architecture and Skyscrapers -- CHAPTER TEN. American Art Comes of Age and Goes to Pieces -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Pacific Overtures? Imperialism and Realpolitik -- CHAPTER TWELVE. It's a Long Way to Tipperary: America and World War I -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Lost Peace: The Eclipse of Woodrow Wilson -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Index