Item #12979 The Centennial Years A Political and Economic History of America from the Late 1870s to the Early 1890s. Fred A. Shannon, Robert Huhn Jones.

The Centennial Years A Political and Economic History of America from the Late 1870s to the Early 1890s

Garden City: Doubleday, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. 6"x8.5". 362 indexed pages. X-library w/graphics. Navy cloth boards w/gilt lettering on spine. Matching blue paste downs. Great B&W photos! Jacket design by Paul Davis. Preface by Jones. Used - VeryGood / Near Fine. Item #12979

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Between 1876 and 1892 the US feted the anniversaries of its independence, its consitution and its discovery. But the celebrations found the nation in a mood far from nostalgia.
This book by a major historian is the story of those years, when America made its great leap forward in the material sphere, but intrenched political machines, unimaginative Presidents, and conservative courts combined to keep many facets of pollitics and society at a standstill. Frequent expolsions of unrest, most spectacularly the Haymarket bombing and the bitter, bloody railroad strikes, met a harsh response from a nation ready to reap the benefits of its industrial revolution, but not yet willing to cope with the resulting problems. This was the time when railroad track mileage doubled, making possible business networks of a size previously undreamed of, fortunes were made through monopolies and trusts, ad labor, fumbling toward a national organization fought its first battles with troops and Pinkertons. Electric and related inventions were transorming life at home and on the job for many American, but in the South the spreading sharecropping system was returning the Negro to bondage, this time in company with the poor white man. And in a nation that still thought of itself as rural, the famer was already suffering from many of the troubles that beset him today.

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