lea 2 cours de civilisation américaine j. kempf the emergence of american industrial capitalism....
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LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf
The emergence of American industrial capitalism. 1870-1929. Economy, culture and foreign policy
1. The late 19th century : expansion and tensions
2. The turn of the century : reform and … more expansion
3. The aftermath of WW1 and the 1920s : modernity and … tensions
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LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf
The emergence of American industrial capitalism. 1870-1929. Economy, culture and foreign policy
Or : the roots of the American modern
1. The late 19th century : expansion and tensions. The social forces at play in the « Gilded age »1. Economy2. Immigration3. Urban life
2. Social tensions, social reforms, progressivism1. The price of the « Gilded Age »2. The plight of the farmers3. Progressivism
3. The Return to Normalcy?1. Economic prosperity, but not for all2. The ideology of business3. The ambiguous culture of the decade
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LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf
The Flatiron Building, ca 1903
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LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. KempfChicago Masonic Temple (1892-1939)
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LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. KempfCa 1906
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LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempfhttp://www.tboake.com/steel/skyscraper_chicago.html
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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
NaturalistsFrank 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).