Incorporation of America Culture and Society in the Gilded Age

Name: Incorporation of America Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
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ISBN: 9780809058280

ISBN-10: 0809058286

ISBN-13: 9780809058280

Edition: 25th 2007

Authors: Alan Trachtenberg

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A classic examination of the roots of corporate culture, newly revised and updated for the twenty first century nbsp; Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in the last third of the nineteenth century and the cultural changes it brought in its wake. In America's westward expansion, labor unrest, newly powerful cities, and newly mechanized industries, the ideals and ideas by which Americans lived were reshaped, and American society became more structured, with an entrenched middle class and a powerful business elite. Here, in an updated edition which includes a new introduction and a revised bibliographical essay, is a brilliant, essential work…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Edition: 25th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 2/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.41" wide x 8.23" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface to the Twenty-fifth-Anniversary Edition


Acknowledgments


Preface



The Westward Route



Mechanization Takes Command



Capital and Labor



Mysteries of the Great City



The Politics of Culture



Fictions of the Real



White City


Revised and Expanded Bibliographical Essay


Index