Perspectives on Modern America: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century

Abstract

Contributors Introduction: Harvard Sitkoff 1. The Twentieth-Century Presidency: 2. Piety and Property: Conservatism and Right-Wing Movements in the Twentieth 3. Twentieth-Century Liberalisms: Transformations of an Ideology: 4. The Republic as Empire: Foreign Policy in the American Century: 5. Work Places: The Economy and the Changing Landscape of Labor, 1900-2000: 6. The History and Politics of Poverty in Twentieth-Century America: 7. Citizens and Consumers in the Century of Mass Consumption: 8. Women in the Twentieth 9. You duh Man!: African Americans in the Twentieth 10. From the Benighted South to the Sunbelt: The South in the Twentieth 11. Democracy, Citizenship, and Race: The West in the Twentieth 12. The Chameleon with Nine Lives: Religion in the Twentieth 13. Immigration and Ethnicity in the 14. The Iron Cage and Its Alternatives in Twentieth-Century Thought: Index