The Gilded Age

Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America
Herausgeber: Calhoun, Charles W.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 801g
• ISBN-13: 9780742550377
• ISBN-10: 0742550370
• Artikelnr.: 21551435

Autorenporträt

Edited by Charles W. Calhoun - Contributions by Eric Arnesen; Robert G. Barrows; Michael Les Benedict; Ballard C. Campbell; W. Bernard Carlson; Stacy A. Cordery; Ruth C. Crocker; Roger Daniels; Edmund J. Danziger Jr.; Leslie H. Fishel Jr.; Joseph A. Fry;

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business
Chapter 2: Technology and America as a Consumer Society, 1870-1900 Chapter
3: American Workers and the Labor Movement in the Late Nineteenth Century
Chapter 4: The Immigrant Experience in the Gilded Age Chapter 5: Urbanizing
America Chapter 6: Women in Industrializing America Chapter 7: The
African-American Experience Chapter 8: Native American Resistance and
Accommodation during the Late Nineteenth Century Chapter 9: The Influence
of Commerce, Technology, and Race on Popular Culture in the Gilded Age
Chapter 10: Cultural and Intellectual Life in the Gilded Age Chapter 11:
The Political Culture: Public Life and the Conduct of Politics Chapter 12:
Party Conflict: Republicans versus Democrats, 1877-1901 Chapter 13: Farmers
and Third-Party Politics Chapter 14: Phases of Empire: Late
Nineteenth-Century U.S. Foreign Relations Chapter 15: Law and the
Constitution in the Gilded Age