Politics, Reform, and Expansion, 1890-1900, Bindi 10Harper, 1959 - 312 síður This volume, one of a long series of studies in American history, deals almost exclusively with the years 1890 to 1900. It is essentially concerned with the politics of the decade, with the economic history of the period, with efforts to reform and improve many areas of the existing society, and finally with the new burst of territorial expansion resulting in part from the Spanish-American War. |
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THE RESTLESS DECADE I | 1 |
THE REVOLT OF THE CITIES | 23 |
THE DECLINE OF AGRICULTURE | 48 |
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