The United States in Our Own Times 1865-1920 (Classic Reprint)
The United States in Our Own Times 1865-1920 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Paul L. Haworth

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-14

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 9780483099807

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Excerpt from The United States in Our Own Times 1865-1920 This book is designed to meet the needs of students who de sire to know our country in our own times. In it I have de voted a large share of space to social and industrial questions, but I have been on my guard against swinging too far in this direction. After all, the business of government is still of prime importance to the welfare of the nation, and it is essential that our citizens should understand our past political history. Throughout the book I have tried to bear in mind that his tory Wm bx abstractions. Nor ham forgotten that generalizations about a subject mean little to a student until he has some knowledge of what actually took place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The United States in Our Own Times 1865-1920
The United States in Our Own Times 1865-1920

Author: Paul L. Haworth

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 591

ISBN-13: 9781330079027

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Excerpt from The United States in Our Own Times 1865-1920 If it be true that an important object of history study is to enable one to understand the present, then it is clear that the time has come when greater emphasis than hitherto must be laid on the period since the Civil War. Fifty-five years-almost half the period of our existence under the Constitution-have passed since the close of that conflict, and most of our problems have little or no direct relation to those that troubled Lincoln and his predecessors. This book is designed to meet the needs of students who desire to know our country in our own times. In it I have devoted a large share of space to social and industrial questions, but I have been on my guard against swinging too far in this direction. After all, the business of government is still of prime importance to the welfare of the nation, and it is essential that our citizens should understand our past political history. Throughout the book I have tried to bear in mind that history is made by men and not by abstractions. Nor have I forgotten that generalizations about a subject mean little to a student until he has some knowledge of what actually took place. I am indebted to a number of persons for assistance rendered in the preparation of the volume, but most of all to Professor James A. Woodburn, my old preceptor and later colleague, for reading the proof and making many helpful suggestions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States

Author: Howard Zinn

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2003-02-04

Total Pages: 764

ISBN-13: 9780060528423

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Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.

Three Years Among the Working-Classes
Three Years Among the Working-Classes

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-03

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9781330637296

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Excerpt from Three Years Among the Working-Classes: In the United States During the War I have been induced to bring this book before the public, that the working-classes of the United Kingdom may have the experience and opinion of one of their own order upon the condition of the people of the United States of America. I have endeavoured to give a true account of the industrial, social, moral, and political state of the people, the circumstances which influence their conduct, and the relation their condition bears to the same classes in Europe. It may he thought that some of my pictures of men and things in the New World are exaggerations; I beg, however, to say that, in my humble opinion, exaggeration of either the people or the country, even by a professional romanticist, would be next to an impossibility! It will he seen that I have not drawn an attractive picture of social life among the working-classes of America, but truth compels me to add a word or two as to the impression made upon me since my return to England, by the condition of the humbler classes in this country, viewed in contrast with those of the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Leopard's Spots
The Leopard's Spots

Author: Thomas Dixon

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-04

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9781330684474

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Excerpt from The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden 1865-1900 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The United States in the Twentieth Century (Classic Reprint)
The United States in the Twentieth Century (Classic Reprint)

Author: Pierre Leroy-Beaulieu

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-26

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9780666391872

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Excerpt from The United States in the Twentieth Century The author desires to be no less modest. He hopes that his presentation of the facts reviewed will in itself be sufficiently instructive to interest the reader. But with far less assurance he submits to the American people the inferences he has drawn from these facts and from personal observation; his analysis of the causes of the economic greatness of the United States, and the views he entertains concerning that country's future. Although assisted by the recollections of a visit paid to the United States a few years ago and of some months' duration, he has no doubt that his book contains more than one erroneous observation. But he would ask the reader to remember that in many instances a foreigner's point of View is necessarily some what different from that of a native. At first glance it may perhaps seem that he dwells too long on certain points so well known that discussion of them would ap pear superfluous; but familiar though these he to Ameri cans, they are by no means equally familiar to the in habitants of the Old World and it was for Old World readers that the work was originally written. On the other hand, the necessity of setting a definite limit to the treatment has resulted in the exclusion of much that it would have been interesting to examine. In regard to certain of my comments and certain of the forecasts I have ventured to make, I would ask the reader not to form a hasty Opinion but to leave to time the task of demonstrating their soundness or error. It is only fifteen months since this book was finished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The American Scene (Classic Reprint)
The American Scene (Classic Reprint)

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9781440058400

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Excerpt from The American Scene The following pages duly explain themselves, I judge, as to the Author's point of view and his relation to his subject; but I prefix this word on the chance of any suspected or perceived failure of such references. My visit to America had been the first possible to me for nearly a quarter of a century, and I had before my last previous one, brief and distant to memory, spent other years in continuous absence; so that I was to return with much of the freshness of eye, outward and inward, which, with the further contribution of a state of desire, is commonly held a precious agent of perception. I felt no doubt, I confess, of my great advantage on that score since if I had had time to become almost as fresh as an inquiring stranger, I had not on the other hand had enough to cease to be, or at least to feel, as acute as an initiated native. I made no scruple of my conviction that I should understand and should care better and more than the most earnest of visitors, and yet that I should vibrate with more curiosity - on the extent of ground, that is, on which I might aspire to intimate intelligence at all than the pilgrim with the longest list of questions, the sharpest appetite for explanations and the largest exposure to mistakes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.