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In this new interpretation of the making of modern America, prizewinning historian Alan Dawley traces the group struggles involved in the nation's rise to power. Probing the dynamics of social change, he explores tensions between industrial workers and corporate capitalists, Victorian moralists and New Women, native Protestants and Catholic immigrants. Thoughtful analysis and sparkling narrative combine to make this book a major challenge to earlier interpretations of the period.Dawley, Alan is the author of 'Struggles for Justice Social Responsibility and the Liberal State', published 1993 under ISBN 9780674845817 and ISBN 0674845811.
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