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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cashman, Sean Dennis, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Progressivism (United States politics).

World War, 1914-1918--United States.

World War, 1914-1918.

United States--History--1901-1953.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (626 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [1988]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [546]-575.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-8147-2358-6

OCLC:

782877923