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 L

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ISBN: 9780742550377 | 0742550370
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/11/2006

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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.

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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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