Gilded Age Or the Hazard of New Functions

Name: Gilded Age Or the Hazard of New Functions
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ISBN: 9780135766798

ISBN-10: 0135766796

ISBN-13: 9780135766798

Edition: 1st 1997

Authors: Mark Wahlgren Summers

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The Gilded Age and/or 19th Century US History Very broad, balanced , accessible account of the Gilded Age (1865-1901) for undergraduates. This survey includes all the recent scholarship on this period and offers a portrait of the economic, political, social and cultural history of the age. This entertaining account tells of injustice, complacency and shallow thinking but also tells of the creativity and idealism of this period. American resourcefulness is shown at its best and worst. How the conservatism of thought and radicalism of technol ogical change remade the Gilded Age, and how society tempered the applications of each, is part of this story. So, too, are mainstream politics and…

Book details

List price: $104.40
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 12/23/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction: Alive from Root to Core



Progress Backward, 1876



The War Never Ends, 1865-1880



A New Stillbirth of Freedom?



Gentlemen, We Are Not Yet Over: Reconstruction



Redeeming the Past, 1875-1898



The New World: America Transformed



Wasteland



Main Line to E Pluribus Unum



Industrialism Unleashed



The Unhuddled Masses



Tiger Passions: The Crisis Of Capitalism



Opportunity?



More? Labor's Revolutionary Tradition



Anarchy with Police



Salvation Armies: Self-Help and Virtue's Legions



Pure (And Not So Pure) Politics



What Are We Here For?



The Myth of Laissez-Unfaire



Tariff Wars in the Billion-Dollar Country, 1884-1890



Armageddon?



Vox Pop



The Second Cleveland's Administration



Cross of Gold



The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned: Empire



The Promised Land


Endnotes


Index