Jeremy C. Young

The Age of Charisma

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates how the modern relationship between leaders and followers in America grew out of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century charismatic social movements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 731g
• ISBN-13: 9781107114623
• ISBN-10: 1107114624
• Artikelnr.: 47358050

Autorenporträt

Jeremy C. Young is an assistant professor of history at Dixie State University, Utah. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Social History, the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Forest History Today, and a dozen newspapers including the Chicago Sun-Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Seattle Times.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Magnetic America: personal magnetism in American culture, 1870-1900
2. Command performances: leaders and their technologies, 1890-1910
3. Transformations: the follower experience, 1890-1920
4. Competing visions: imagining charisma and social change, 1890-1910
5. Changing society: the rise and fall of progressive charisma, 1910-20
6. End of an age: from magnetism to mass communication, 1920-40
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.