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Author | : Tim McNeese |
Publisher | : Lorenz Educational Press |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2000-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 078770427X |
(18711929) The Age of Progress covers the latter decades of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th. Building on the advances of the industrial revolution, this "post-revolutionary" period is similarly defined by remarkable technological and industrial innovation. An era of firstssteel bridges, sewing machines, bicycles, typewriters, radios, automobiles, airplanes, electric light bulbs, the telephone, photography, and the first motion picturethe Age of Progress gave birth to unprecedented modes of productivity, transportation, and communication. Thomas Alva Edison, Wilbur and Orville Wright, and Charles Darwin are among the historic figures discussed. Special emphasis is given to the sociology of industrial advancementmost notably the development of leisure. Challenging map exercises and provocative review questions encourage meaningful reflection and historical analysis. Tests and answer keys included.
Author | : S. C. Burchell |
Publisher | : New York : Time, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Civilization |
ISBN | : |
Picture-and-text survey of man's achievements in politics, science and the arts, from the opening of the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 to the outbreak of World War I.
Author | : Walter G. Moss |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2008-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857286226 |
βAn Age of Progress?β is an advanced examination of major twentieth-century global developments regarding subjects as diverse as violence, capitalism, socialism and communism, imperialism, racism, nationalism, westernization, globalization, international finance, freedom and human rights, physical and mental environmental changes, culture, science, education, religion and social criticism. This momentous study also explores the ways in which the twentieth century made significant progress β and the ways in which it did not.
Author | : Erik Brynjolfsson |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-01-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0393239357 |
The big stories -- The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- The digitization of just about everything -- Innovation : declining or recombining? -- Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age -- Computing bounty -- Beyond GDP -- The spread -- The biggest winners : stars and superstars -- Implications of the bounty and the spread -- Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals -- Policy recommendations -- Long-term recommendations -- Technology and the future (which is very different from "technology is the future").
Author | : Robert Nisbet |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2017-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351515462 |
The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and talk shows, the debate between those who are "progressivists" and those who are "declinists" is as spirited as it was in the late seventeenth century. In History of the Idea of Progress, Robert Nisbet traces the idea of progress from its origins in Greek, Roman, and medieval civilizations to modern times. It is a masterful frame of reference for understanding the present world. Nisbet asserts there are two fundamental building blocks necessary to Western doctrines of human advancement: the idea of growth, and the idea of necessity. He sees Christianity as a key element in both secular and spiritual evolution, for it conveys all the ingredients of the modern idea of progress: the advancement of the human race in time, a single time frame for all the peoples and epochs of the past and present, the conception of time as linear, and the envisagement of the future as having a Utopian end. In his new introduction, Nisbet shows why the idea of progress remains of critical importance to studies of social evolution and natural history. He provides a contemporary basis for many disciplines, including sociology, economics, philosophy, religion, politics, and science. History of the Idea of Progress continues to be a major resource for scholars in all these areas.
Author | : Tim McNeese |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History, Modern |
ISBN | : |
"The Age of Progress covers the latter decades of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th.
Author | : Irene Collins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1983 |
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Author | : Edward O'Donnell |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2015-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231539266 |
America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839β1897) published a radical critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. Progress and Poverty (1879), which became a surprise best-seller, offered a provocative solution for preserving these traditions while preventing the amassing of wealth in the hands of the few: a single tax on land values. George's writings and years of social activism almost won him the mayor's seat in New York City in 1886. Though he lost the election, his ideas proved instrumental to shaping a popular progressivism that remains essential to tackling inequality today. Edward T. O'Donnell's exploration of George's life and times merges labor, ethnic, intellectual, and political history to illuminate the early militant labor movement in New York during the Gilded Age. He locates in George's rise to prominence the beginning of a larger effort by American workers to regain control of the workplace and obtain economic security and opportunity. The Gilded Age was the first but by no means the last era in which Americans confronted the mixed outcomes of modern capitalism. George's accessible, forward-thinking ideas on democracy, equality, and freedom have tremendous value for contemporary debates over the future of unions, corporate power, Wall Street recklessness, government regulation, and political polarization.
Author | : Johan Norberg |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-04-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1786072327 |
A Book of the Year for The Economist and the Observer Our world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration: divisive politics across the Western world, racism, poverty, war, inequality, hunger. While politicians, journalists and activists from all sides talk about the damage done, Johan Norberg offers an illuminating and heartening analysis of just how far we have come in tackling the greatest problems facing humanity. In the face of fear-mongering, darkness and division, the facts are unequivocal: the golden age is now.
Author | : Samuel C. Burchell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Political, technological and cultural developments in Europe, 1850-1914.