Uneasy State The United States from 1915 To 1945

Name: Uneasy State The United States from 1915 To 1945
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ISBN: 9780226425207

ISBN-10: 0226425207

ISBN-13: 9780226425207

Edition: 1983 (Reprint)

Authors: Barry D. Karl

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In this major interpretive history of the reform era, Barry Karl presents an imaginative and thoughtful perspective on America's quest for political, economic, and cultural nationalism. Challenging accepted interpretations, he argues that the two world wars and the depression did not successfully unite the country so that a national managerial state could emerge as it did in other industrial nations. Karl draws on an impressive array of sources to support his position, offering insightful comments on popular culture—movies, novels, comic strips, and detective stories—and brilliant analyses of technological change and its impact. Karl shows how Americans approached the central dilemmas of…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue



Introduction



Militant Progressivism



Managing War



Middle America: Uncertainty at the Crossroads



Defining the Great Depression



Half Way to Waterloo



The Limits of Reform



Thermidor and the Third New Deal



Ending the Twenty-Year Armistice



Managing War Again


Epilogue


Index