The incorporation of America : culture and society in the gilded age / Alan Trachtenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trachtenberg, Alan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Civilization--1865-1918.

United States.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xviii, 272 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Hill and Wang, 2007.

Summary:

A classic examination of the roots of corporate culture, newly revised and updated for the twenty first century Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in the last third of the nineteenth century and the cultural changes it brought in its wake. In America's westward expansion, labor unrest, newly powerful cities, and newly mechanized industries, the ideals and ideas by which Americans lived were reshaped, and American society became more structured, with an entrenched middle class and a powerful business elite. Here, in an updated edition which includes a new introduction and a revised bibliographical essay, is a brilliant, essential work on the origins of America's corporate culture and the formation of the American social fabric after the Civil War.

Contents:

Preface to the Twenty-fifth-Anniversary Edition ix

1 The Westward Route 11

2 Mechanization Takes Command 38

3 Capital and Labor 70

4 Mysteries of the Great City 101

5 The Politics of Culture 140

6 Fictions of the Real 182

7 White City 208

Revised and Expanded Bibliographical Essay 235.

ISBN:

9780809058280

0809058286

OCLC:

70660333

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