264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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Many of the key issues concerning the United States as we enter the 21st century were already taking shape as we entered the 20th century. Business mergers, U.S. military intervention (in the Philippines), trade disputes with China and Europe, racial violence, high levels of crime, rising income gaps between rich and poor, volatile stock market prices, homelessness in the cities, the dangers of... Read more
Part I In the Year Double-Zero; Chapter 1 New Year’s Day 1900; Chapter 2 The Invincible Economy; Chapter 3 American Dreaming; Part II Fin de Siècle Dilemmas; Chapter 4 Kings of America; Chapter 5 The Great Game; Chapter 6 Other Americans; Chapter 7 White Man’s Country; Chapter 8 Black in White Man’s Country; Chapter 9 “A New Power of the First Order”; Chapter 10 Of Trusts, Islands, Dinner Pails, and an Election; epi Epilogue;
Biography
Authored by Kent, Noel J
