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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Edwards, Rebecca, 1966- New spirits. New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 (OCoLC)607641864 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rebecca Edwards |
| ISBN: | 0195147286 9780195147285 0195147294 9780195147292 |
| OCLC Number: | 58919459 |
| Description: | 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Democratic vistas -- PART I: THE WEDGE: An uneasy peace -- Reach -- Work -- Money -- PART II: THE EXCHANGE: Youth - Sex -- Science -- Faith -- PART III: THE FIRES: A state of war -- Cooperative dreams -- Executive powers -- Epilogue: The partridges and the hippopotamus. |
| Responsibility: | Rebecca Edwards. |
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"Rebecca Edwards' analysis reveals the complex dichotomy of angst and optimism that filled the decades from 1865 to 1905. This is not the romanticized story of a more innocent time. Instead, New Spirits uncovers a complex period of economic, political, and cultural diversity that mapped the main pathways to the contemporary United States in a global context."--Kriste Lindenmeyer, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
"Finally, we have a fresh historical interpretation of the most neglected half-century in American history. Edwards has done the seemingly impossible--written a book that keeps a superb balance between the material, regional, political, religious, ethnic, and literary sides of the story; purveys key facts in a highly readable way; never bogs down in abstraction; and, at moments, is humorous to boot. Not only is she sensitive to class, cultural, racial, and gender diversity both in her text's scope and tone, she also sounds themes whose continuity with the present
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