| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 642 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
History of Wisconsin ; volume 5 |
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History of Wisconsin ; volume 5
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| Contents |
Part I: The Great War and its aftermath ; Wisconsin, neutrality, and belligerency -- An uneasy peace comes to Wisconsin -- Dreams, illusions, and disappointments of the postwar decade -- Part II: The new era ; Complexities of industrial expansion -- Agriculture, scientific research, and the dissemination of knowledge -- City and hinterland : tensions of the new era -- Leisure, education, and politics -- The progressive tradition and political behavior in Wisconsin -- Part III: The Great Depression ; The challenge of economic depression -- Cries of protest, murmurs of discontent, and formation of the Progressive Party of Wisconsin -- Wisconsin and the New Deal -- Controversies along the middle way -- Man CAN have work AND be free -- Epilogue : the land remembers -- Appendix A: The Governors of Wisconsin, 1914-1940 -- Appendix B: Analysis of the La Follette elections |
| Summary |
This volume covers the years from the outbreak of World War I to the eve of American entry into World War II. In between, the rise of the woman's movement, the advent of universal suffrage, and the "great experiment" of Prohibition are explored, along with the contest between newly emergent labor unions and powerful business and industrial corporations. Author Paul W. Glad also investigates the Great Depression in Wisconsin and its impact on rural and urban families in the state. Photographs and maps further illustrate this volume which tells the story of one of the most exciting and stressful eras in the history of the state |
| Bibliography |
Includes a bibliographical essay on sources (pages 589-620), and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Wisconsin -- History -- 1848- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147097
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Wisconsin -- Politics and government -- 1848-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147100
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Wisconsin -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
Wisconsin
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780870206320 |
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087020632X |
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