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The Gilded Age

Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America

The Gilded Age( )
Editor: Calhoun, Charles W.
Contribution by: Arnesen, Eric
Barrows, Robert G.
Benedict, Michael Les
Campbell, Ballard C.
Carlson, W. Bernard
Cordery, Stacy A.
Crocker, Ruth C.
Daniels, Roger
Danziger, Edmund J.
Fishel, Leslie H.
Fry, Joseph A.
Gould, Lewis L.
Litwicki, Ellen M.
Miller, Worth Robert
Porter, Glenn
ISBN:978-0-7425-5038-4
Publication Date:Sep 2006
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $55.00
Book Description:

Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments. These engaging pieces allow students to consider the various societal, cultural and political factors that make studying the Gilded Age crucial to our understanding of America today.

Book Details
Pages:402
Detailed Subjects: History / United States / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.11 x 9.13 x 0.82 Inches
Book Weight:1.18 Pounds
Author Biography
(Editor)
Historian Roger Daniels has written numerous books, mostly on immigration history and Japanese-American internment during World War II. He was past president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the Immigration History Society. He served as a consultant to the Presidential Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians and on the planning committee for the Immigration Museum on Ellis Island. He has also worked with the National Park Service on historic sites and as a historical consultant for many television programs. As a Fulbright Professor he taught at five universities in Europe and two universities in Canada. His last position was at the University of Cincinnati. Even in retirement, he continues to write, edit, and guest lecture.

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