A companion to the gilded age and progressive era
2025
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Abstract: "A companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era presents a collection of new historiographic essays covering the years between 1877 and 1920, a period which saw the U.S. emerge from the ashes of Reconstruction to become a world power."-- Provided by publisher.
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A companion to the gilded age and progressive era / edited by Christopher McKnight Nichols and Nancy C. Unger.
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[Enhanced Credo edition]
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Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2017.Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2025.
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1 online resource (39 entries) : 3 images ; digital files.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.Also available in print version.Description based on title page of print version.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Contents:
Introduction: Gilded excesses, multiple progressivisms / Christopher McKnight Nichols and Nancy C. UngerPart I. Overview-definitions, precursors, and geographies. 1. Reconstructing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Heather Cox Richardson ; 2. Precursors to Gilded Age and Progressive Era reforms / James M. Beeby and Brian M. Ingrassia ; 3. Urban America / Michael B. Kahan ; 4. The South / Amy Louise Wood ; 5. The Midwest and Far West during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Thomas J. Jablonsky ; 6. Environment: nature, conservation, and the progressive state / Benjamin JohnsonPart II. Sex, race, and gender. 7. Gender / Kimberly A. Hamlin ; 8. Inventing sexuality: ideologies, identities, and practices in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Leigh Ann Wheeler ; 9. African Americans / Omar H. Ali ; 10. From dispossessed wards to citizen activists: American Indians survive the assimilation policy era / Alexandra Harmon ; 11. Race, immigration, and ethnicity / Julie GreenePart III. Art, thought, and culture. 12. Art and architecture / Alan Lessoff ; 13 Religion in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Matthew Bowman ; 14. Journalism / Bruce J. Evensen ; 15. Popular culture / Julia GuarneriPart IV. Economics, science, and technology. 16. American capitalism: from the Atlantic economy to domestic industrialization / Noam Maggor ; 17. Nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and civil society / David C. Hammack ; 18. Labor and class in the GAPE: fruitful opposition and the specter of the middle class / David Huyssen ; 19. Science and technology / Alan I Marcus ; 20 The rise of a modern concept of "health" / David G. SchusterPart V. Political leadership. 21. Gilded Age presidents / Justus D. Doenecke ; 22 Political movers and shakers / Karen Pastorello ; 23. Changing interpretations of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era / Kathleen Dalton ; 24. Woodrow Wilson / Lloyd E. AmbrosiusPart VI. Government, politics, and law. 25. Pivotal elections / Sidney M. Milkis and Anthony Sparacino ; 26. Congress in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Mark Wahlgren Summers ;- 27. Revising constitutional history / Logan E. Sawyer III ; 28. Radicalism and conservatism / Cristina V. GroegerPart VII. The United States and the World. 29. Connections, networks, and the beginnings of a global America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Ian Tyrrell ; 30. Empire, expansion, and its consequences / Allan E.S. Lumba ; 31. The United States in the world during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Katherine UntermanPart VIII. Major works and contemporary relevance. 32. Decades of upheaval and reform / Maureen A. Flanagan ; 33. Influential works about the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Robert D. Johnston ; 34. Why the Gilded Age and Progressive Era still matter / Michael Kazin.
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ISBN:
9781803165820 (electronic version)1119775701 (print)9781119775706 (print)
Dewey class:
973.8
LC class:
E661
Language:
English
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A companion to the gilded age and progressive era
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1020514
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