The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920

by John Whiteclay Chambers II

Book Overview

Between 1890 and 1920, the forces accompanying industrialization sent the familiar nineteenth-century world plummeting toward extinction. The traditional countryside with its villages and family farms was eclipsed by giant corporations and sprawling cities. America appeared headed into an unknown future.

In lively, accessible prose, John Chambers incorporates the latest scholarship about the social, cultural, political, and economic changes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813527996
• ISBN13: 9780813527994
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.0"