The Search for Order, 1877-1920
Author | : Robert H. Wiebe |
Publisher | : Hill and Wang |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2022-12-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780374611859 |
ISBN-13 | : 0374611858 |
Rating | : 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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, 1877-1920, Robert H. 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.