America in the Gilded Age Third Edition

Name: America in the Gilded Age Third Edition
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ISBN: 9780814714959

ISBN-10: 0814714951

ISBN-13: 9780814714959

Edition: 3rd 1993

Authors: Sean Dennis Cashman

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"Clear, graceful, and lively. An excellent collection of photographs enhances [the text]." The Historian "A lively, often entertaining and generally well-balanced treatment. . . enlivened by the lavish use of colorful, often amusing, anecdotes." History "A lucid and perceptive examination. . . a fine synthesis of primary research and recent scholarship that emphasizes personalities of the age without slighting the overriding issues. . . [It] should delight students." Journal of Economic History When the first edition ofAmerica in the Gilded Agewas published in 1984, it soon acquired the status of a classic, and was widely acknowledged as the first comprehensive account of the latter half…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 10/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 442
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Sean Dennis Cashman is the author of various popular books on American history, most recently the third edition of his classic America in the Gilded Age , also available from NYU Press.



Illustrations


Preface to the New Edition


Preface to the First Edition



The Sight and Sound of Industrial America



Industrial Spring



Titans at War: The Industrial Legacy of Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan



Exodus to a Promised Land



The Sorrows of Labor



Not since Nineveh: Tall Stories and Tales of Two Cities



Midsummer of the American Renaissance



Politics and Discontent



Reconstruction and the New South



The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel



Opening the West and Closing the Frontier



Gates of Silver and Bars of Gold



War and Empire



The Dawn of a Progressive Age


Chronology


Sources


Bibliography


Index