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A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, PDF eBook

A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era PDF

Edited by Christopher McKnight Nichols, Nancy C. Unger

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Description

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.

  • The single, definitive resource for the latest state of knowledge relating to the history and historiography of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
  • Features contributions by leading scholars in a wide range of relevant specialties
  • Coverage of the period includes geographic, social, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, ethnic, racial, gendered, religious, global, and ecological themes and approaches
  • In today s era, often referred to as a second Gilded Age, this book offers relevant historical analysis of the factors that helped create contemporary society
  • Fills an important chronological gap in period-based American history collections