Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Cooper, John Milton.

Title Pivotal decades : the United States, 1900-1920 / John Milton Cooper, Jr
Edition First edition
Published New York ; London : Norton, [1990]
©1990

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  973.91 COO-P  AVAILABLE
Description xviii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: LIST OF MAPS xi -- INTRODUCTION xiii -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xviii -- -- 1 The United States in 1900 1 -- ADVANCES AND SOCIAL DIVISIONS 3 -- THE POLITICAL ARENA 16 -- THE ELECTION OF 1900 20 -- -- 2 "That Damned Cowboy" 31 -- CHANGING THE GUARD 31 -- CONTINUITY AT HOME 42 -- BIG STICK ABROAD 50 -- IN HIS OWN RIGHT 56 -- -- 3 "Excitement and Irritation" 62 -- THE STRUGGLE OVER ACCESS 62 -- THE EXCLUSION OF BLACKS 70 -- THE REFORM IMPULSE 80 -- -- 4 Power and Responsibility in the Age of Roosevelt 90 -- INSURGENCY AND LEGISLATION 90 -- THE WORLD STAGE 102 -- DEADLOCK 109 -- -- -- -- -- 5 Social Turmoil and Political Ferment -- in the Taft Years 122 -- TIDES OF DISCONTENT 123 -- THE ALLURES OF MODERNITY 132 -- COLLISIONS IN POLITICS 145 -- -- 6 The Emergence of Wilson 158 -- THE RETURN OF THE HERO 158 -- NEW STAR RISING 163 -- HATS IN THE RING 169 -- 1912: THE GREAT CAMPAIGN 175 -- -- 7 The New Freedom 190 -- THE FIRST WILSON PROGRAM 195 -- NEW FREEDOM FOR WHOM? 202 -- REFORMERS AT A CROSSROADS 212 -- -- 8 Armageddon Abroad 220 -- DISTANT THUNDER 221 -- WAR IN EUROPE 227 -- THE SHOCK OF RECOGNITION 233 -- -- 9 "He Kept Us Out of War" 247 -- CLOSE CALL AT THE BALLOT BOX 247 -- A PEACE OFFENSIVE 255 -- CRISIS RENEWED 260 -- -- 10 "Over There" 268 -- A CALL TO ARMS 268 -- THE WAR AT HOME 287 -- CHANGE WITHIN CONTINUITY 305 -- To THE FOURTEEN POINTS 314 -- -- 11 1919 319 -- A SEA OF TROUBLES 320 -- PEACEMAKING AT PARIS 333 -- -- -- -- -- THE STRUGGLE OVER THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 343 -- COLLAPSE 350 -- -- 12 The Twenties Begin 357 -- -- POLITICS-A GOLDEN AGE No LONGER 357 -- "NORMALCY" 365 -- -- FURTHER READING 377 -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 393 -- INDEX 395
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-391) and index
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1909-1913. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140458
United States -- Politics and government -- 1913-1921. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140459
United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1909. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140456
United States -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410 -- 1913-1920
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140464
LC no. 89003397
ISBN 0393028062
0393956555 (paperback)