America in the Gilded Age : : Third Edition / / Sean Dennis Cashman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Cashman, Sean Dennis,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1993]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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 illustrations, many new to this addition.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface to the New Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- PART ONE. The Sight and Sound of Industrial America -- 1. Industrial Spring -- 2. Titans at War: The Industrial Legacy of Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan -- 3. Exodus to a Promised Land -- 4. The Sorrows of Labor -- 5. Not since Nineveh: Tall Stories and Tales of Two Cities -- 6. Midsummer of the American Renaissance -- PART TWO. Politics and Discontent -- 7. Reconstruction and the New South -- 8. The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel -- 9. Opening the West and Closing the Frontier -- 10. Gates of Silver and Bars of Gold -- 11. War and Empire -- 12. The Dawn of a Progressive Age -- Chronology -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Index