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The Devil in Babylon
Allan Levine
其他書名
Fear of Progress and the Birth of Modern Life
出版McClelland & Stewart, 2005
主題History / GeneralHistory / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)History / North AmericaHistory / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralPolitical Science / International Relations / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / Urban
ISBN07710527319780771052736
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dS11AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋What should the modern world look like? Who should be its leaders? And what values should it embrace? We have never wrestled over these questions more than in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Allan Levine’s newest book chronicles this wide-ranging emotional and moral conflict by focusing on the people who lived through this turbulent era: an array of personalities – traditionalists as well as progressives, the powerful and the powerless – who, for better or worse, shaped the contours ofcontemporary North American society. Among them were anarchist Emma Goldman, prohibitionist and creationist William Jennings Bryan, women’s rights campaigner Nellie McClung, and gangster Al Capone. Their personal experiences are set against the heated debate about the impact of immigration, the role of women, the conflict between science and religion, the influence of Hollywood, and the changing attitudes about sex – issues that preoccupied, and even consumed, North Americans of all classes.