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Edited by Charles W. Calhoun - Contributions by Eric Arnesen; Robert G. Barrows; Michael Les Benedict; Ballard C. Campbell; W. Bernard Carlson; Stacy A. Cordery; Ruth C. Crocker; Roger Daniels; Edmund J. Danziger Jr.; Leslie H. Fishel Jr.; Joseph A. Fry;
Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments. These engaging pieces allow students to consider the various societal, cultural and political factors that make studying the Gilded Age crucial to our understanding of America today.
IntroductionChapter 1: Industrialization and the Rise of Big BusinessChapter 2: Technology and America as a Consumer Society, 1870-1900Chapter 3: American Workers and the Labor Movement in the Late Nineteenth CenturyChapter 4: The Immigrant Experience in the Gilded AgeChapter 5: Urbanizing AmericaChapter 6: Women in Industrializing AmericaChapter 7: The African-American ExperienceChapter 8: Native American Resistance and Accommodation during the Late Nineteenth CenturyChapter 9: The Influence of Commerce, Technology, and Race on Popular Culture in the Gilded AgeChapter 10: Cultural and Intellectual Life in the Gilded AgeChapter 11: The Political Culture: Public Life and the Conduct of PoliticsChapter 12: Party Conflict: Republicans versus Democrats, 1877-1901Chapter 13: Farmers and Third-Party PoliticsChapter 14: Phases of Empire: Late Nineteenth-Century U.S. Foreign RelationsChapter 15: Law and the Constitution in the Gilded Age