The Search for Order, 1877-1920 - Softcover

Wiebe, Robert H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809001047 ISBN 13: 9780809001040

Publisher: Hill and Wang, 1966

Synopsis

At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search for Order, Robert Wiebe shows how, in subsequent years, during the Progressive Era of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, Americans sought the organizing principles around which a new viable social order could be constructed in the modern world. This subtle and sophisticated study combines the virtues of historical narrative, sociological analysis, and social criticism.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Robert Wiebe sees the Progressive era of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson as a search for organizing principles around which a viable social order could be constructed in a new, largely impersonal world. This book combines the virtues of historical narrative, sociological analysis, and social criticism.

About the Author:

Robert H. Wiebe, professor of history at Northwestern University, is the author of The Segmented Society and Self Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hill and Wang
• Publication date: 1966
• ISBN 10: 0809001047
• ISBN 13: 9780809001040
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352