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Title: The Gilded Age: Essays on the Origins of Modern America by Charles W. Calhoun ISBN: 0-8420-2500-6 Publisher: SR Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Summary: The Gilded Age
Comment: The Gilded Age by Charles C. Calhoun describes itself as a collection of essays on the origins of modern America. The book offers information on the various categories of people living in America during the so-called Gilded Age, a time of rapid change, a time of accumulation of vast fortunes, a time of growing social discontent. Editor Charles C. Calhoun collects the research of numerous scholars. Therefore the positions of industrialists, laborers, women, African Americans, Native Americans, farmers and politicians are all covered with equal enthusiasm. This is a good way to do it because the focus of the overall book is more inclusive and less narrowly focused. This allows the reader to form his or her own opinions on the data presented. Photographs and illustrations help to shed light upon the landscapes and lives of the characters living during the late 1800's and early 1900's. My favorite pictures are found in the chapter titled "Urbanizing America". There are some great shots of how our cities used to look. Overall the book is informative and you might find yourself saying, "Oh, so that is why things are the way they are today."
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Title: Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-Of-The-Century New York by Kathy Peiss ISBN: 0877225001 Publisher: Temple University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1987 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire by Sarah Lyons Watts, Sarah Watts ISBN: 0226876071 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $37.00 |
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Title: Major Problems in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era: Documents and Essays (Book Two of the Circle Opens Quartet) by Leon Fink ISBN: 0618042555 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $41.96 |
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Title: A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era by Steven Diner ISBN: 0809016117 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: American Populism: A Social History, 1877-1898 (American Century Series) by Robert C., Jr. McGrath ISBN: 0374522642 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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