The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America

by Stacy A. Cordery

Book Overview

The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society.

Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742550389
• ISBN13: 9780742550384
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"