The Gilded Age Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America
by Calhoun, Charles W.; Arnesen, Eric; Barrows, Robert G.; Benedict, Michael Les; Campbell, Ballard C.; Carlson, W. Bernard; Cordery, Stacy A.; Crocker, Ruth C.; Daniels, Roger; Danziger, Edmund J., Jr.; Fishel, Leslie H., Jr.; Fry, Joseph A.; Gould, Lewis LEdition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-09-11
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together 16 original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments. These engaging pieces allow students to consider the various societal, cultural and political factors that make studying the Gilded Age crucial to our understanding of America today.
Table of Contents
| Industrialization and the rise of big business | p. 11 |
| Technology and America as a consumer society, 1870-1900 | p. 29 |
| American workers and the labor movement in the late nineteenth century | p. 53 |
| The immigrant experience in the gilded age | p. 75 |
| Urbanizing America | p. 101 |
| Women in industrializing America | p. 119 |
| The African-American experience | p. 143 |
| Native American resistance and accommodation during the late nineteenth century | p. 167 |
| The influence of commerce, technology, and race on popular culture in the gilded age | p. 187 |
| Cultural and intellectual life in the gilded age | p. 211 |
| The political culture : public life and the conduct of politics | p. 239 |
| Party conflict : republicans versus democrats, 1877-1901 | p. 265 |
| Farmers and third-party politics | p. 283 |
| Phases of empire : late nineteenth-century U.S. foreign relations | p. 307 |
| Law and the constitution in the gilded age | p. 333 |
| Public policy and state government | p. 353 |
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