The gilded age : a reappraisal / H. Wayne Morgan, ed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morgan, H. Wayne (Howard Wayne), ed.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Civilization--1865-1918.

United States.

Physical Description:

286 p. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Syracuse, N.Y.] Syracuse University Press, 1963.

Contents:

An age in need of reassessment: a view beforehand / H. Wayne Morgan

The robber baron in th gilded age: entrepreneur or iconoclast / John Tipple

The worker's search for power: labor in the gilded age / Herbert G. Gutman

Spoilsmen and reformers: civil service reform and public morality / Ari Hoogenboom

The Republican Party revisited, 1877-1897 / Vincent P. De Santis

Greenbackers, goldbugs, and silverites: reform and policy, 1860-1897 / Paolo E. Coletta

Rumblings beneath the surface: America's outward thrust, 1865-1890 / Milton Plesur

Gilt, gingerbread, and realism: the public and its taste / Robert R. Roberts

The search for reality: writers and their literature / Robert Falk

New men and new ideas: science and the American mind / Paul F. Boller, Jr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Roger W. Moss, Jr.

Athenaeum copy: Front flyleaf and half-title paper inscribed in pen: "Roger W. Moss, Jr."