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Title Who built America? [electronic resource] : from the centennial celebration of 1876 to the Great War of 1914 / conceived by the American Social History Project with the Voyager Company ; created and written by Roy Rozenweig and Steve Brier ; visual editor, Josh Brown.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Voyager, c1994.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Rosen  305.5 W62 1994    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition Macintosh version.
Description 1 computer optical disc : col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 user's guide (17 p.) + 1 demo disk (3 1/2 in.)
System Details System requirements: Any color-capable Macintosh (25-MHz 68030 processor or better recommended); 8MB of installed RAM (5,000 free); System 7; 13 in. (640x480) or larger color monitor, gray scale acceptable; QuickTime ready CD-ROM drive (double-speed recommended).
Note Title from title screen.
Ed. from statement from disc label.
"Derived from the two-volume textbook of United States history, Who built America? : working people and the nation's economy, politics, culture, and society (Pantheon, 1989. 1992)."--User's guide.
Summary An interactive multimedia work on CD-ROM that focuses on the work that built, sustained, and transformed American society, and on the changing conditions, conduct and beliefs of the people who performed that essential labor. Features thousands of pages of text and historical documents, hundreds of high-resolution pictures, photographs, and letters, 60 graphs and charts, four hours of audio, and 45 minutes of film. Users can navigate a number of ways, including page, word, chapter, and table of contents, or use customized searching and notebook capabilities to search by subject and document type.
Contents Prologue -- 1. Progress and poverty: Introduction; The emergence of urban-industrial life; The remaking of the American working class; Businessmen search for control; The South shall rise again; How the West was lost; Capitalism and the meaning of democracy -- 2. Community and culture: Introduction; Accommodation and resistance; Individual lives; Leisure; Religion and politics; Cooperation in the countryside; Collectivity and conflict -- 3. Struggle and reaction: Introduction; Knights, craftsmen, and union for all; 1886, the great upheaval; The employer counteroffensive; Homestead; Depression and conflict, Pullman; Populists and the politics of protest; The rise of nativism and racism; End of a century, end of an era -- 4. Reforming America: Introduction; The search for new markets; Big business and the remaking of the working class; A new urban world; The resurgence of craft unionism; Labor wars; An age of reform; A modern form of government -- Conclusion.
Subject Working class -- United States -- History.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
United States -- History.
Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
Working class. (OCoLC)fst01180418
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1865 - 1918
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Rosenzweig, Roy.
Brier, Steven, 1946-
Brown, Joshua, 1949-
American Social History Project.
Voyager Company.
Added Title Who built America?
ISBN 1559402954
9781559402958

 
    
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