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America in the gilded age : from the death of Lincoln to the rise of Theodore Roosevelt /

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 socia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cashman, Sean Dennis (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©1993.
Edición:3rd ed.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.