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At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search for Order , Robert Wiebe shows how, in... read more

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AFTER A PAUSE during the depression, three more transcontinentals-the Southern Pacific, the Northern Pacific, and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe-were completed at two-year intervals early in the eighties.

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  1. Robert H. Wiebe (Author)
 

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