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The Rise of Multicultural America : Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915 /

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 develo...

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Autor principal: Mizruchi, Susan L. (Susan Laura)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Notas:Description based upon print version of record.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (368 pages).
ISBN:9781469605678