Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919 - Hardcover

Nell Irvin Painter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393024059 ISBN 13: 9780393024050

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988

Synopsis

Winner of the Letitia Brown Memorial Publication Prize.

About this title

About the Author:

Nell Irvin Painter is the award-winning author of many books, including Sojourner Truth, Southern History Across the Color Line, Creating Black Americans, The History of White People, and Standing at Armageddon. She is currently the Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, at Princeton University and lives in Newark, New Jersey, and the Adirondacks.

Review:

The turmoil that attended America's shift from a rural, agrarian society to an urban, industrial one, described with a highly readable combination of scholarly thoroughness and stylistic verve. . . . A consistently engrossing, occasionally irreverent, always smoothly written history of America's painful entry into the modern age. — Kirkus Reviews

A vivid portrayal of people's history with the politics left in. With analytical cohesiveness, intellectual grasp and wit, Painter succeeds not only in integrating issues in Afro-American and women's history with the whole but also in relating the role and presence of the modern state to the trends in ordinary people's lives. . . . A gripping and forceful narrative. — Nancy F. Cott, Yale University

Lucid and compelling. . . . The first general treatment of this era that does full justice to the struggles of working people. It will provide future historians with a good model for how to do narrative synthesis 'from the bottom up.'
— George M. Fredrickson, Stanford University

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0393024059
• ISBN 13: 9780393024050
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448