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American Ways

The Making of an Organizational Society, 1850-1920

By: Maury Klein

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Paperback | 1 August 1993

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In a provocative new interpretation of a transforming era in American history, Maury Klein examines the forces that turned the United States from a rural agricultural society to an urban industrial one. Integrating social, economic, and business history, he stresses the driving role of technology and the emergence of a complex society of many cultures, lacking a cohesive center. The rise of a corporate economy, described by Mr. Klein, resulted in productive miracles unequaled elsewhereâ"but at the cost of great social dislocation in American life. Gradually there arose a society that organized and formalized traditional American values in new and unexpected ways. This transformation produced a surprising new center for the diverse and fragmented American social order: the consumer economy. The new order flowered after the turn of the century and was advanced by the consequences of World War I, which left the United States as the world''s major power. The Flowering of the Third America is a vivid and authoritative portrait of the making of modern America.

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A balanced book . . . packed with significant facts . . . clear and concise.--Journal of American History

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Prologue: The United States in 1850	p. 3
The Industrializing of America	p. 11
The New Entrepreneurs	p. 29
The Corporate Economy	p. 42
The Business of Farming	p. 57
The Corporate Society	p. 76
The New American Landscape	p. 106
Technology Triumphant	p. 124
Integration and Alienation	p. 148
The Flowering of the Third America	p. 171
Epilogue: The United States in 1920	p. 192
A Note on Sources	p. 204
Index	p. 212
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