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New spirits : Americans in the "Gilded Age," 1865-1905 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, Rebecca, 1966- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
United States > History > 1865-1921.
United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The wedge, 1865-1890
  • An uneasy peace: the legacies of Civil War
  • Reach: energy, corporations, and people in the global economy
  • Work: moving up or getting by
  • A state of war: the violence of incorporation
  • Part II. The exchange
  • Money
  • Youth
  • Sex
  • Faith
  • Science
  • Part III. The fires, 1890-1905
  • Cooperative dreams: populists and progressives
  • Executive powers: presidents, corporations, and American empire
  • Epilogue: the partridges and the hippopotamus.