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Author
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
From the publisher. This offers a detailed and long-awaited reassessment of one of the most maligned periods in American journalism -- the era of the yellow press. The study challenges and dismantles several prominent myths about the genre, finding that the yellow press did not foment -- could not have fomented -- the Spanish-American War in 1898, contrary to the arguments of many media historians. The study presents extensive evidence showing that...
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Fascinating.... A major work by a leading historian at the top of his game-at once engaging and tightly argued." -The New York Times Book Review "Dazzling cultural history: smart, provocative, and gripping. It is also a book for our times, historically grounded, hopeful, and filled with humane, just, and peaceful possibilities." -The Washington Post An illuminating and authoritative history of America in the years between the Civil War and World...
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Series
Publisher
University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The two defining moments of Western coalfield labor relations have been massacres: Wyoming's Rock Springs Massacre of 1885 and Colorado's Ludlow Massacre of 1914. But it wasn't just the company guns that were responsible for the deaths of 28 Chinese coal miners and 13 women and children. It was the result of racial tensions and the economics of the coal industry itself. In Industrializing the Rockies, David A. Wolff places these deadly conflicts...