Gilded Age

Charles W. Calhoun received his doctorate in history from Columbia University. He is professor of history at East Carolina University, and author of Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869–1900, Benjamin Harrison, and Gilded Age Cato: The Life of Walter Q. Gresham.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Industrialization and the Rise of Big BusinessChapter 2: Technology and America as a Consumer Society, 1870–1900Chapter 3: American Workers and the Labor Movement in the Late Nineteenth CenturyChapter 4: The Immigrant Experience in the Gilded AgeChapter 5: Urbanizing AmericaChapter 6: Women in Industrializing AmericaChapter 7: The African-American ExperienceChapter 8: Native American Resistance and Accommodation during the Late Nineteenth CenturyChapter 9: The Influence of Commerce, Technology, and Race on Popular Culture in the Gilded AgeChapter 10: Cultural and Intellectual Life in the Gilded AgeChapter 11: The Political Culture: Public Life and the Conduct of PoliticsChapter 12: Party Conflict: Republicans versus Democrats, 1877–1901Chapter 13: Farmers and Third-Party PoliticsChapter 14: Phases of Empire: Late Nineteenth-Century U.S. Foreign RelationsChapter 15: Law and the Constitution in the Gilded Age

This book is an essential resource—the only collection of essays on the post-Civil War decades currently in print. The first edition provided excellent coverage of politics, the economy, science and technology, and the experiences of such key social groups as women, Native Americans, and African-Americans. The new second edition enhances this with superb new essays on the era's cultural and intellectual history. From the steel industry to the Chicago World's Fair, from the Supreme Court to the Social Gospel, these essays introduce readers to one of the most formative and exciting periods in American history.