The Response to Industrialism, 1885-1914 (The Chicago History of American Civilization) - Hardcover

Hays, Samuel P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226321630 ISBN 13: 9780226321639

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1995

Synopsis

In this new edition, Samuel P. Hays expands the scope of his pioneering account of the ways in which Americans reacted to industrialism during its early years from 1885 to 1914. Hays now deepens his coverage of cultural transformations in a study well known for its concise treatment of political and economic movements.

Hays draws on the vast knowledge of America's urban and social history that has been developed over the last thirty-eight years to make the second edition an unusually well-rounded study. He enhances the original coverage of politics, labor, and business with new accounts of the growth of cities, the rise of modern values, cultural conflicts with Native Americans and foreign nations, and changing roles for women, African-Americans, education, religion, medicine, law, and leisure. The result is a tightly woven portrait of America in transition that underscores the effects of impersonal market forces and greater personal freedom on individuals and chronicles such changes as the rise of social inequality, shifting power, in the legal system, the expansion of the federal government, and the formation of the Populist, Progressive, and Socialist parties.

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About the Author

Samuel P. Hays is Distinguished Service Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. His other books include Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency (1959) and Beauty, Health, and Permanence (1989).

From Library Journal

Hays here covers the period in which industrialism first stamped itself on American society. He "carefully explains the interrelationships of the multiple sectors of society and indicates clearly how the present institutions came into being" (LJ 7/57). In this second edition, Hayes updates his observations.
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0226321630
• ISBN 13: 9780226321639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 280