The Gilded Age
Or the Hazard of New Functions
Published on 8. January 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-13-576679-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 religion. This is a rich, colorful narrative about a complex period in American 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 religion. This is a rich, colorful narrative about a complex period in American history.
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Content
Introduction: Alive from Root to Core.
1. Progress Backward, 1876.
I. THE WAR NEVER ENDS, 1865-1880.
2. A New Stillbirth of Freedom?
3. "Gentlemen, We Are Not Yet Over": Reconstruction.
4. Redeeming the Past, 1875-1898.
II. THE NEW WORLD: AMERICA TRANSFORMED.
5. Wasteland.
6. Main Line to E Pluribus Unum.
7. Industrialism Unleashed.
8. The Unhuddled Masses.
III. TIGER PASSIONS: THE CRISIS OF CAPITALISM.
9. Opportunity?
10. More? Labor's Revolutionary Tradition.
11. Anarchy with Police.
12. Salvation Armies: Self-Help and Virtue's Legions.
IV. PURE (AND NOT SO PURE) POLITICS.
13. "What Are We Here For?"
14. The Myth of Laissez-Unfaire.
15. Tariff Wars in the Billion-Dollar Country, 1884-1890.
V. ARMAGEDDON?
16. Vox Pop.
17. The Second Cleveland's Administration.
18. Cross of Gold.
19. The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned: Empire.
20. The Promised Land.
Endnotes.
Index.
1. Progress Backward, 1876.
I. THE WAR NEVER ENDS, 1865-1880.
2. A New Stillbirth of Freedom?
3. "Gentlemen, We Are Not Yet Over": Reconstruction.
4. Redeeming the Past, 1875-1898.
II. THE NEW WORLD: AMERICA TRANSFORMED.
5. Wasteland.
6. Main Line to E Pluribus Unum.
7. Industrialism Unleashed.
8. The Unhuddled Masses.
III. TIGER PASSIONS: THE CRISIS OF CAPITALISM.
9. Opportunity?
10. More? Labor's Revolutionary Tradition.
11. Anarchy with Police.
12. Salvation Armies: Self-Help and Virtue's Legions.
IV. PURE (AND NOT SO PURE) POLITICS.
13. "What Are We Here For?"
14. The Myth of Laissez-Unfaire.
15. Tariff Wars in the Billion-Dollar Country, 1884-1890.
V. ARMAGEDDON?
16. Vox Pop.
17. The Second Cleveland's Administration.
18. Cross of Gold.
19. The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned: Empire.
20. The Promised Land.
Endnotes.
Index.