America in the Gilded Age : Third Edition
Sean Dennis. Cashman
Bok Engelsk 1993 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New York : : NYU Press, , 1993.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (448 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Preface to the New Edition; Preface to the First Edition; PART ONE The Sight and Sound of Industrial America; CHAPTER 1 Industrial Spring; CHAPTER 2 Titans at War: The Industrial Legacy of Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan; CHAPTER 3 Exodus to a Promised Land; CHAPTER 4 The Sorrows of Labor; CHAPTER 5 Not since Nineveh: Tall Stories and Tales of Two Cities; CHAPTER 6 Midsummer of the American Renaissance; PART TWO Politics and Discontent; CHAPTER 7 Reconstruction and the New South; CHAPTER 8 The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel. - CHAPTER 9 Opening the West and Closing the FrontierCHAPTER 10 Gates of Silver and Bars of Gold; CHAPTER 11 War and Empire; CHAPTER 12 The Dawn of a Progressive Age; Chronology; Sources; Bibliography; Index. - When the first edition of America in the Gilded Age was published in 1984, it soon acquired the status of a classic, and was widely acknowledged as the first comprehensive account of the latter half of the nineteenth century to appear in many years. Sean Dennis Cashman traces the political and social saga of America as it passed through the momentous transformation of the Industrial Revolution and the settlement of the West. Revised and extended chapters focusing on immigration, labor, the great cities, and the American Renaissance are accompanied by a wealth of augmented and enhanced illustra
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| ISBN | 0814714943. - 0814714951
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