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Building Culture: Studies in the Intellectual History of Industrializing America, 1867-1910
Richard F. Teichgraeber III
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 199 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
An unprecedented wave of interest in building new cultural institutions swept through America from the end of the Civil War through the first decade of the twentieth century. Traditionally historians have told us that this sea change was the work of various elites intent on controlling the turmoil and divisions that accompanied the industrialization of the American economy. In Building Culture, Richard Teichgraeber rejects this hierarchical account to pursue one that highlights the multiplicity of attitudes and interests that were on display in America's first great effort to build national cultural institutions. Teichgraeber also lays the groundwork of a new ... Read more
An unprecedented wave of interest in building new cultural institutions swept through America from the end of the Civil War through the first decade of the twentieth century. Traditionally historians have told us that this sea change was the work of various elites intent on controlling the turmoil and divisions that accompanied the industrialization of the American economy. In Building Culture, Richard Teichgraeber rejects this hierarchical account to pursue one that highlights the multiplicity of attitudes and interests that were on display in America's first great effort to build national cultural institutions. Teichgraeber also lays the groundwork of a new ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570039256
SKU
V9781570039256
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Reviews for Building Culture: Studies in the Intellectual History of Industrializing America, 1867-1910
Teichgraeber takes a much more sanguine view of culture, character and causality in Building Culture: Studies in the Intellection History of Industrializing America, 1867-1910. - Jennie A. Kassanoff, Gilt Stricken: The Interdependencies of the Gilded Age Teichgraeber takes a much more sanguine view of culture, character and causality in Building Culture: Studies in ... Read more