The gilded age : perspectives on the origins of modern America / edited by Charles W. Calhoun.

Other author Calhoun, Charles W. (Charles William), 1948-
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2007.
Descriptionx, 391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
United States--Civilization. --1865-1918.

Contents Introduction / Charles W. Calhoun -- Industrialization and the rise of big business / Glenn Porter -- Technology and America as a consumer society, 1870-1900 / W. Bernard Carlson -- American workers and the labor movement in the late nineteenth century / Eric Arnesen -- The immigrant experience in the gilded age / Roger Daniels -- Urbanizing America / Robert G. Barrows -- Women in industrializing America / Stacy A. Cordery -- The African-American experience / Leslie H. Fishel, Jr -- Native American resistance and accommodation during the late nineteenth century / Edmund J. Danziger, Jr -- The influence of commerce, technology, and race on popular culture in the gilded age / Ellen M. Litwicki -- Cultural and intellectual life in the gilded age / Ruth C. Crocker -- The political culture : public life and the conduct of politics / Charles W. Calhoun -- Party conflict : Republicans versus Democrats, 1877-1901 / Lewis L. Gould -- Farmers and third-party politics / Worth Robert Miller -- Phases of empire : late nineteenth-century U.S. foreign relations / Joseph A. Fry -- Law and the Constitution in the gilded age / Michael Les Benedict -- Public policy and state government / Ballard C. Campbell.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006012206
ISBN0742550370 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0742550389 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780742550377
ISBN9780742550384

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