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A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era


A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era


Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History 1. Aufl.

von: Christopher McKnight Nichols, Nancy C. Unger

42,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 10.01.2017
ISBN/EAN: 9781118913970
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 528

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<i>A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era </i>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.<br /> <ul> <li>The single, definitive resource for the latest state of knowledge relating to the history and historiography of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era</li> <li>Features contributions by leading scholars in a wide range of relevant specialties</li> <li>Coverage of the period includes geographic, social, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, ethnic, racial, gendered, religious, global, and ecological themes and approaches</li> <li>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</li> <li>Fills an important chronological gap in period-based American history collections</li> </ul>
<p>Notes on Contributors Introduction: Gilded Excesses, Multiple Progressivisms 1<br /><i>Christopher McKnight Nichols and Nancy C. Unger</i></p> <p><b>Part I Overview‐Definitions, Precursors, and Geographies 5</b></p> <p>1 Reconstructing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 7<br /><i>Heather Cox Richardson</i></p> <p>2 Precursors to Gilded Age and Progressive Era Reforms 21<br /><i>James M. Beeby and Brian M. Ingrassia</i></p> <p>3 Urban America 31<br /><i>Michael B. Kahan</i></p> <p>4 The South 44<br /><i>Amy Louise Wood</i></p> <p>5 The Midwest and Far West during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 58<br /><i>Thomas J. Jablonsky</i></p> <p>6 Environment: Nature, Conservation, and the Progressive State 71<br /><i>Benjamin Johnson</i></p> <p><b>Part II Sex, Race, and Gender 85</b></p> <p>7 Gender 87<br /><i>imberly A. Hamlin</i></p> <p>8 Inventing Sexuality: Ideologies, Identities, and Practices in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 102<br /><i>Leigh Ann Wheeler</i></p> <p>9 African Americans 116<br /><i>Omar H. Ali</i></p> <p>10 From Dispossessed Wards to Citizen Activists: American Indians Survive the Assimilation Policy Era 124<br /><i>Alexandra Harmon</i></p> <p>11 Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity 137<br /><i>Julie Greene</i></p> <p><b>Part III Art, Thought, and Culture 149</b></p> <p>12 Art and Architecture 151<br /><i>Alan Lessoff</i></p> <p>13 Religion in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 165<br /><i>Matthew Bowman</i></p> <p>14 Journalism 178<br /><i>Bruce J. Evensen</i></p> <p>15 Popular Culture 190<br /><i>Julia Guarneri</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Economics, Science, and Technology 203</b></p> <p>16 American Capitalism: From the Atlantic Economy to Domestic Industrialization 205<br /><i>Noam Maggor Copyrighted Material</i></p> <p>17 Nonprofit Organizations, Philanthropy, and Civil Society 215<br /><i>David C. Hammack</i></p> <p>18 Labor and Class in the GAPE: Fruitful Opposition and the Specter of the Middle Class 229<br /><i>David Huyssen</i></p> <p>19 Science and Technology 243<br /><i>Alan I Marcus</i></p> <p>20 The Rise of a Modern Concept of “Health” 255<br /><i>David G. Schuster</i></p> <p><b>Part V Political Leadership 269</b></p> <p>21 Gilded Age Presidents 271<br /><i>Justus D. Doenecke</i></p> <p>22 Political Movers and Shakers 284<br /><i>Karen Pastorello</i></p> <p>23 Changing Interpretations of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era 296<br /><i>Kathleen Dalton</i></p> <p>24 Woodrow Wilson 308<br /><i>loyd E. Ambrosius</i></p> <p><b>Part VI Government, Politics, and Law 321</b></p> <p>25 Pivotal Elections 323<br /><i>Anthony Sparacino</i></p> <p>26 Congress in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 339<br /><i>Mark Wahlgren Summers</i></p> <p>27 Revising Constitutional History 350<br /><i>Logan E. Sawyer III</i></p> <p>28 Radicalism and Conservatism 362<br /><i>Cristina V. Groeger</i></p> <p><b>Part VII The United States and the World 379</b></p> <p>29 Connections, Networks, and the Beginnings of a Global America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 381<br /><i>Ian Tyrrell</i></p> <p>30 Empire, Expansion, and Its Consequences 399<br /><i>Allan E. S. Lumba</i></p> <p>31 The United States in the World during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 410<br /><i>Katherine Unterman</i></p> <p><b>Part VIII Major Works and Contemporary Relevance 421</b></p> <p>32 Decades of Upheaval and Reform 423<br /><i>Maureen A. Flanagan</i></p> <p>33 Influential Works about the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 437<br /><i>Robert D. Johnston</i></p> <p>34 Why the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Still Matter 450<br /><i>Michael Kazin</i></p> <p>Bibliography 454</p> <p>Index 507</p>
<p>"Scholars of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, along with graduate and undergraduate students, will fine <i>A Companion to the Golded Age and Progressive Era</i>, edited by Christopher McKnight Nichols and Nancy C. Unger, an essential resource. The thirty-four essays contained within it, arranged in eight thematic sections are authored by a combination of the field's leading scholars and its rising stars. These pieces range from good to excellent. Overall, this volume combines a profound appreiation for the historians who have long defined this period...with a commitment to moving beyond the belief in American exceptionalism that, consciously or not, guided their writings. Specifically, key essays in this Companion contextualize the GAPE within a global framework."<br /><b>REVIEWED BY JOHN P. ENYEART</b>, Bucknell University in the <i>Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era</i> (October 2018)</p>
<p><b>Christopher McKnight Nichols</b> is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University. He is author of the award-winning book, <i>Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age</i> (2011), co-editor of <i>Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America's Imminent Secularization from the Puritans to the Present Day</i> (2008), and Senior Editor of the two volume <i>Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History </i>(2013).</p> <p><b>Nancy C. Unger</b> is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. She is the author of <i>Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History</i> (2012) and the award-winning biographies <i>Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer</i> (2000), and <i>Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer</i> (2016).</p>
Characterized by social upheavals, rapid industrialization, and unprecedented economic growth, the long Gilded Age and Progressive Era represents one of the most fascinating and instructive times in American history. <i>A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era</i> presents a collection of new historiographic and historical 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. Featuring contributions from top scholars writing in their field of expertise, essays explore this critical period of America's past from a variety of innovative approaches and scholarly lenses: social, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, ethnic, racial, gendered, religious, global, and ecological. Essays provide a multi-faceted and in-depth compendium of the rich scholarship that offers interpretations of the history and historiography of the period, as well as assessments of current leading works on its key themes, topics, and individuals. After providing an overview of events that paved the way to the Gilded Age in different regions of the country, essays explore general topics relating to such themes as sexuality, race, science and technology, education, and more. Readings focus on government, politics, and law, and feature essays on the period’s presidents, concluding with Woodrow Wilson. After considering the relationship between the U.S. and the rest of the world, the final essays evaluate major works of and about the era and address the era’s relevance today. <i>A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era</i> is an essential resource that adds immeasurably to the body of knowledge about one of the most important periods of U.S. history.

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