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Online-Ressource (368 p)
ISBN:
9780807859124
Content:
Between the Civil War and World War I the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history. At the same time, the country experienced unparalleled rates of immigration. In The Rise of Multicultural America, Susan Mizruchi examines the convergence of these two extraordinary developments. No issue was more salient in postbellum American capitalist society, she argues, than the country's bewilderingly diverse population. This era marked the emergence of Americans' self-consciousness about what we today call multiculturalism.Mizruchi approaches this complex development from the
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Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; ONE: Remembering Civil War; TWO: Racism as Opportunity in the Reconstruction Era; THREE: Cosmopolitanism; FOUR: Indian Sacrifice in an Age of Progress; FIVE: Marketing Culture; SIX: Varieties of Work; SEVEN: Corporate America; EIGHT: American Utopias; AFTERWORD; Notes; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807887967
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807859124
Additional Edition:
Print version Rise of Multicultural America
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
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