A companion to the Gilded age and progressive era / edited by Christopher McKnight Nichols and Nancy C. Unger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nichols, Christopher McKnight, editor.

Unger, Nancy C., editor.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell companions to American history.

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Wiley Blackwell companions to American history

THEi Wiley ebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Almanacs, American--Juvenile literature--Indexes.

Almanacs, American.

United States--History--1865-1921--Encyclopedias.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (526 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2017.

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Summary:

A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 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. * The single, definitive resource for the latest state of knowledge relating to the history and historiography of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era * Features contributions by leading scholars in a wide range of relevant specialties * Coverage of the period includes geographic, social, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, ethnic, racial, gendered, religious, global, and ecological themes and approaches * 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 * Fills an important chronological gap in period-based American history collections

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Gilded Excesses, Multiple Progressivisms

Part I Overview-Definitions, Precursors, and Geographies

Chapter One Reconstructing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Redefining the Era

Writing a New Narrative

The Universal Suffrage Years

Restricting the Suffrage

Defining the Government

Reforming America

Reconstructing America

References

Chapter Two Precursors to Gilded Age and Progressive Era Reforms

An "Age of Reform": Mugwumps and Political Reformers

"A Search for Order": Industrialization and its Consequences

Social Justice and the Settlement House Movement

In Search of Progressivism: The Kaleidoscope of Reform Traditions

The Transnational Debate and Precursors to Reform

The Labor Movement and the Era of Reform

Agrarian Discontent and its Legacies

Conclusion: The Debate Continues

Chapter Three Urban America

"The Loop": Urban Downtowns

"Little Sicily," "Deutschland," and "Chinatown": Ethnicity and Immigration

The Black Belt: Race and the City

The "Slum," the "Zone of Workingmen's Homes," and the "Commuter Zone": Class Divisions in the City

Progressivism, Women, and Urban Reform

Cities of the South and West

Future Directions

Further reading

Chapter Four The South

The Rise of the "New South"

The Rise of Jim Crow

The Progressive Movement in the South

Conclusion: National Reconciliation

Chapter Five The Midwest and Far West during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

The Midwest

Politics

The Far West

Conclusion

Chapter Six Environment: Nature, Conservation, and the Progressive State

Part II Sex, Race, and Gender

Chapter Seven Gender.

Popular Culture

Politics and Gender

Labor and Gender

Education and Gender

Physical Appearance

Gender Outliers

The Origins of Gender Ideology in the GAPE

Suggestions for Further Research

Chapter Eight Inventing Sexuality: Ideologies, Identities, and Practices in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Gilded Age Tensions and the Last Gasps of Victorianism: Keeping Sex Private and Spheres Separate

Progressive-Era Trade-offs and Modern Sexuality: Making Sex Public in an Era of Reform and Consumerism

Chapter Nine African Americans

Chapter Ten From Dispossessed Wards to Citizen Activists: American Indians Survive the Assimilation Policy Era

Indians on the Margins of History

Indians' Unique "Wardship"

Indians' Significance for Non‐Indians

Shared Economic History

Shared Cultural History

Indian Progressives

Shared Religious Innovation and Fervor

Further Reading

Chapter Eleven Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity

Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity

Part III Art, Thought, and Culture

Chapter Twelve Art and Architecture

Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Hegemony

Internal Contexts

Sublime Land

Renaissance Brought Home

A Postwar Culture

Still Americans Abroad?

A Gendered Profession

Art for the People

Malleable Vocabularies

Creators and Organizers

Revolts and Establishments

Chapter Thirteen Religion in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Renewal and Reaction in the American South

Urbanization and Diversity in the American North

Conquest and Resistance in the American West

Epilogue: Christianity and Imperialism in Progressive‐age America

References.

Further Reading

Chapter Fourteen Journalism

The Attack on Trinity Church

Going Undercover

Socialism and Journalism

Child Labor

The Yellow Press

Lynching and the Black Press

Chapter Fifteen Popular Culture

Narratives of Manipulation and Resistance

From American Exceptionalism to Transatlantic Modernity

Ideology and Utopia in American Culture

Consumer Culture in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Progressives and Popular Culture

Cultural Reach and Homogenization

Part IV Economics, Science, and Technology

Chapter Sixteen American Capitalism: From the Atlantic Economy to Domestic Industrialization

Capital

Geography

Politics and the State

Chapter Seventeen Nonprofit Organizations, Philanthropy, and Civil Society

Nonprofit Organizations

Religious Philanthropy as a Feature of the Gilded Age

Secular Philanthropy in the Progressive Era

Philanthropy and Civil Society in the Progressive Era

Chapter Eighteen Labor and Class in the GAPE: Fruitful Opposition and the Specter of the Middle Class

Celebration of "Middle-Class" Order

Cynicism of the Margins

Transition and Continuity

That Fuzzy "Middle Class"

Chapter Nineteen Science and Technology

Chapter Twenty The Rise of a Modern Concept of "Health"

Professional Medicine

Public Health

The Pharmaceutical Industry

Health and Popular Culture

Part V Political Leadership

Chapter Twenty-One Gilded Age Presidents

Hayes Administration

Rethinking the Garfield Years

The Surprising Presidency of Chester A. Arthur.

More Than Two Nonconsecutive Terms: Competing Interpretations of Grover Cleveland

Revisionism Can Only Go So Far: The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison

A Turning-Point Presidency: William McKinley and the Rise of Modern America

Chapter Twenty-Two Political Movers and Shakers

The Politics of Populism

Progressivism

Progressivism's Hiatus

Chapter Twenty-Three Changing Interpretations of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era

The Heroic Period of Historical Interpretation of Theodore Roosevelt

The Deflation of Theodore Roosevelt's Reputation

Historians' Understanding of Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism from the 1960s Onward

The Effects of the Social History Revolution on Understandings of Progressivism and Theodore Roosevelt

Historiographical Debates about Theodore Roosevelt and US Foreign Policy

Chapter Twenty-Four Woodrow Wilson

Early Life

Progressive Presidency

International Relations

Legacy and Reputation

Part VI Government, Politics, and Law

Chapter Twenty-Five Pivotal Elections

Gilded Age and Progressive Era Politics

Sectionalism and the Transformation of Political Competition

Elections and the Growth of the American State

Political Parties, Corruption, and Progressive Reform

Presidency-Centered Parties

Conclusion: Partisanship Beyond the Parties

Chapter Twenty-Six Congress in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Chapter Twenty-Seven Revising Constitutional History

Framing Gilded and Progressive Era Legal History: The Progressive Synthesis

Revisionism Emerges

Revisionism Elaborated

Revisionism Extended

Revisionism Complicated

Revisionism Challenged

Cases Cited.

Chapter Twenty-Eight Radicalism and Conservatism

Introduction

1877-1896: The Long Shadow of the Civil War

1890-1914: Progressive Reform

1914-1927: World War I, State Repression, and the Birth of Civil Liberties

Conclusion: Tracing Radicalism and Conservatism Backwards

Part VII The United States and the World

Chapter Twenty-Nine Connections, Networks, and the Beginnings of a Global America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

The New Communications Networks

Cultural Implications of the New Technologies

Progressivism and Transatlantic Reform

Progressive Experts Abroad

Missionaries, Humanitarianism and American Cultural Expansion

Business and Cultural Expansion

Future Research

Chapter Thirty Empire, Expansion, and Its Consequences

Imperial Conditions and Imperial Futures

Against Exceptionalism

The Optics of Difference

After the "American Century"

Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Empire

Chapter Thirty-One The United States in the World during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Policing: The Hemisphere, the Colonies, and the Borders

An Interconnected World

The United States in World War I

Directions for Future Research

Part VIII Major Works and Contemporary Relevance

Chapter Thirty-Two Decades of Upheaval and Reform

Defending the Status Quo

Formulating New Conceptions of Society

Questioning Wealth

Multiple Problems/Multiple Reform Proposals

The West: Final Frontier of Democracy

Science Will Cure the Problems

Bringing Democracy to the World/Defining the American Character

Saving the World

Chapter Thirty-Three Influential Works about the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

The Politics of Synthesis.

The Political Economy of the Gilded Age Progressive Era.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 1, 2017).

ISBN:

9781118913987

1118913981

9781118913970

1118913973

9781118913994

111891399X

OCLC:

968926431