A companion to the gilded age and progressive era. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Christopher M. Nichols, Nancy C. Unger.
• Editors: Nichols, Christopher McKnight; Unger, Nancy C
• Contents: Notes on Contributors vii Introduction: Gilded Excesses, Multiple Progressivisms 1; Christopher McKnight Nichols and Nancy C. Unger Part I Overview ‐ Definitions, Precursors, and Geographies 5 1 Reconstructing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 7; Heather Cox Richardson 2 Precursors to Gilded Age and Progressive Era Reforms 21; James M. Beeby and Brian M. Ingrassia 3 Urban America 31; Michael B. Kahan 4 The South 44; Amy Louise Wood 5 The Midwest and Far West during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 58; Thomas J. Jablonsky 6 Environment: Nature, Conservation, and the Progressive State 71; Benjamin Johnson Part II Sex, Race, and Gender 85 7 Gender 87; Kimberly A. Hamlin 8 Inventing Sexuality: Ideologies, Identities, and Practices in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 102; Leigh Ann Wheeler 9 African Americans 116; Omar H. Ali 10 From Dispossessed Wards to Citizen Activists: American Indians Survive the Assimilation Policy Era 124; Alexandra Harmon 11 Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity 137; Julie Greene Part III Art, Thought, and Culture 149 12 Art and Architecture 151; Alan Lessoff 13 Religion in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 165; Matthew Bowman 14 Journalism 178; Bruce J. Evensen 15 Popular Culture 19; Julia Guarneri Part IV Economics, Science, and Technology 203 16 American Capitalism: From the Atlantic Economy to Domestic Industrialization 205; Noam Maggor 17 Nonprofit Organizations, Philanthropy, and Civil Society 215; David C. Hammack 18 Labor and Class in the GAPE: Fruitful Opposition and the Specter of the Middle Class 229; David Huyssen 19 Science and Technology 243; Alan I Marcus 20 The Rise of a Modern Concept of “Health” 255; David G. Schuster Part V Political Leadership 269 21 Gilded Age Presidents 271; Justus D. Doenecke 22 Political Movers and Shakers 284; Karen Pastorello 23 Changing Interpretations of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era 296; Kathleen Dalton 24 Woodrow Wilson 308; Lloyd E. Ambrosius Part VI Government, Politics, and Law 321 25 Pivotal Elections 323; Sidney M. Milkis and Anthony Sparacino 26 Congress in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 339; Mark Wahlgren Summers 27 Revising Constitutional History 350; Logan E. Sawyer III 28 Radicalism and Conservatism 362; Cristina V. Groeger Part VII The United States and the World 379 29 Connections, Networks, and the Beginnings of a Global America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 381; Ian Tyrrell 30 Empire, Expansion, and Its Consequences 399; Allan E. S. Lumba 31 The United States in the World during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 410; Katherine Unterman Part VIII Major Works and Contemporary Relevance 421 32 Decades of Upheaval and Reform 423; Maureen A. Flanagan 33 Influential Works about the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 437; Robert D. Johnston 34 Why the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Still Matter 450; Michael Kazin Bibliography 454 Index 507
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 973.8; United States -- History -- 1865-1921; United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781118913987
• Related ISBNs: 9781118913970
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