{"product_id":"the-american-1890s-susan-harris-smith-9780822325123","title":"The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader","description":"America at the last fin de si鐵le was in a period of profound societal transition. Industrialization was well under way and with it a burgeoning sense of professionalism and a growing middle class that was becoming increasingly anxious about issues of race, gender, and class. \u003ci\u003eThe American 1890s: A Cultural Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is a wide-ranging anthology of essays, criticism, and fiction first printed in periodicals during those last remarkable years of the nineteenth century, a decade commonly referred to as the \"golden age\" of periodical culture.\u003cbr\u003eTo depict the many changes taking place in the United States at this time, Susan Harris Smith and Melanie Dawson have drawn from an eclectic range of periodicals: elite monthlies such as \u003ci\u003eScribner's, Harper's, \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly;\u003c\/i\u003e political magazines such as the \u003ci\u003eNorth American Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eForum;\u003c\/i\u003e magazines for general readers such as \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMcClures;\u003c\/i\u003e and specialized publications including the \u003ci\u003eChatauquan, Outing, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eColored American Magazine.\u003c\/i\u003e Authors represented in the collection include Andrew Carnegie, Edith Wharton, Theodore Roosevelt, Susan B. Anthony, Booker T. Washington, Stephen Crane, \u003cbr\u003eW. E. B. DuBois, Jacob Riis, and Frederick Jackson Turner. A general introduction to the period, a brief contextualizing essay for each selection, and a comprehensive bibliography of secondary sources are provided as well. In examining and debating the decade's momentous political and social developments, the essays, editorials, and stories in this anthology reflect a constantly shifting culture at a time of internal turmoil, unprecedented political expansion, and a renaissance of modern ideas and new technologies.\u003cbr\u003eBringing together a carefully chosen selection of primary sources, \u003ci\u003eThe American 1890s\u003c\/i\u003e presents a remarkable variety of views-nostalgic, protective, imperialist, progressive, egalitarian, and democratic-held by American citizens a century ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Harris Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822325128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822325123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.05w x 1.17d","brand":"Susan Harris Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120350720255,"sku":"9780822325123","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a411b85-2b62-471a-bc9a-c89fab85cead.jpg?v=1687413854","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-american-1890s-susan-harris-smith-9780822325123","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}