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The emergence of American industrial capitalism (1870-1929) Economy, culture and foreign policy. The late 19 th century : expansion and tensions The turn of the century : reform and … more expansion The aftermath of WW1 and the 1920s : modernity and … tensions.
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The emergence of American industrial capitalism (1870-1929) Economy, culture and foreign policy • The late 19th century : expansion and tensions • The turn of the century : reform and … more expansion • The aftermath of WW1 and the 1920s : modernity and … tensions LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf
The emergence of American industrial capitalism (1870-1929). Or : the roots of the American modern • The late 19th century : expansion and tensions. The social forces at play in the « Gilded age ». 1870-1890 • Economy • Immigration • Cities • Social tensions, social reforms, progressivism. 1890-1917 • The price of the « Gilded Age » • Progressivism • The Return to Normalcy? 1919-1929 • Economic prosperity, but not for all • Continuing trends • A difficult conversion • The ambiguities of consumption • The ideology of business • The businessman as heroe of the age • Foreign policy • The ambiguous culture of the 1920s • Nativism • Cultural opening and cultural closure LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf
Andrew Carnegie John Pierpont Morgan John D. Rockefeller Cornelius Vanderbilt LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf
The Flatiron Building, ca 1903 LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf
Chicago Masonic Temple (1892-1939) LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf
Ca 1906 LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf
http://www.tboake.com/steel/skyscraper_chicago.html LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf
Nostalgic “local color” literature Bret Harte : “The Outcasts of Poker Flat,” (1860s), Hamlin Garland, Main-Traveled Roads (1891) and Mark Twain (Huck Finn, 1884) Brutality of the changing economy in the Gilded Age and the consequences of the move to the city William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890) in the Bowery Horatio Alger wrote a score of juvenile novels between the 1860 to 1890s Naturalists Frank Norris (McTeague, 1899; The Octopus, 1901), Stephen Crane (Maggie, 1893; Red Badge of Courage, 1895 on Civil War) Theodore Dreiser (Sister Carrie, 1900, The Financier, 1912 and The Titan, 1914, An American Tragedy, 1925). LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf
Important points for the exam • The nature (composition, waves, chronology) of immigration and its effect on American society at the end of the century. • What Progressivism means in this historical context (its characteristics) • The continuities and differences between the turn-of-century and the 1920s • The many characteristics of the development of cities. • The cultural and social characteristics of the 1920s: industrial development but also social tensions, cultural openings and cultural closure. LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf
