HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Standard Oil, White Supremacy, The Communist Manifesto
17 Jul 2013
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Defining progressivism: the consequences of industrialization and urbanization; losing the sense of the agrarian ideal; with cities comes fears of what cities bring (alcoholism, prostitution etc. Election of 1896: the center of the debate is about money, speci cally what should the standard basis of the currency be. The progressives steel but the tin man has a hard time competing bc other europeans are producing steel. They are following a yellow brick road (a golden road), heading to oz (illusion to white city, or washington; its either rockofellar). When you get to the big city you pull the curtain and there is nothing there. Dorothy reps all of america, and the ruby slippers she wears in the movie are silver in the book. The cowardly l,ion (william jenning brian); he is an up and coming political of cial, he"s sort of a dark horse, he"s not really one to watch until he runs for the democratic nomination.
