Who Built America?: Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society: Volume Two: Since 1877

by Nelson Lichtenstein

Other authorsSusan Strasser (Author), Roy Rosenzweig (Author), Bruce Levine (First edition author), Stephen Brier (Executive editor), Joshua Brown (Visual editor), Susan Porter Benson (First edition author), David Bensman (First edition author), Joshua Freeman (First edition author), David Brundage (First edition author), Bret Eynon (First edition author), Bryan Palmer (First edition author)
Paperback, 2000

Pages

xxiv; 786; 22; 28

Status

Available

Call number

HD8066.W47 v.2 2000

Publication

New York: Worth Publishers, c2000; 2nd ed., 1st printing

Physical description

xxiv, 786, 22, 28 p.; 23.2 cm

ISBN

1572593032 / 9781572593039

Language

Description

At last, American history is more than presidents and robber barons, elections and battles, names and dates to memorize. Who Built America? is about working Americans -- artisans, servants, slaves, farm families, laborers, women working in the home, factory hands, and office clerks -- who played crucial roles in shaping modern America: what they thought, what they did, and what happened to them. The central focus of this two-volume history of the United States is the changing nature of the work that built, sustained, and transformed American society over the course of almost four centuries. It depicts the ways working people affected and were affected by the economic, social, cultural, and political processes that together make up the national experience. The result is a path-breaking integration of the history of community, family, gender roles, race, and ethnicity into the more familiar history of U.S. politics and economic development. Volume One takes the reader through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the great railroad strike of 1877. Volume Two continues the story from the expansion of industrial capitalism during the Gilded Age and the rise of movements of opposition, through the decades of world war, depression, and industrial unionism, to the dramatic growth of U.S. military and economic power in the postwar era and the continuing struggle over the meaning of America in the contemporary era.… (more)

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