The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the ...
 A classic examination of the roots of corporate culture, newly revised and updated for the twenty first century Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in the last third of the nineteenth century and the [... more]
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The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age--the time between Reconstruction and the Spanish-American War--marked the beginnings of modern America. The advertising industry became an important part of selling the American Dream. Americans dined out more than ever before, and began [... more]
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The Gilded Age Presidency Reconsidered
The Gilded Age Presidency Reconsidered [... more]
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Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America
On the stroke of midnight on January 16, 1920, America went dry. For the next thirteen years the 18th Amendment to the Constitution would specifically deny every citizen the right to buy or sell alcoholic drink. Those thirteen years were to change [... more]
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Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in ...
Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement [... more]
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Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, ...
Beyond the Lines offers the most imaginative reading I have seen of 19th century visual journalism. The book illuminates in highly original ways how Gilded Age engravers both shaped and reflected popular views regarding race, ethnicity, and labor strife. [... more]
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Trolley Wars: Streetcar Workers on the Line
American cities' rapid expansion after the Civil War fueled the growth of organized transportation systems - omnibuses, horsecars, and later electric streetcars. Trolley Wars traces the social dynamics of these first mass-transportation systems as they [... more]
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Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in ...
The author presents the case of surgeon Dr. Mary Dixon-Jones, who in 1889 Boston was the subject in two court cases -- one for manslaughter and the other for libel -- which became a 19th century sensation. [... more]
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Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign ...
FORBIDDEN SIGNS explores American culture from the mid-19th century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode--the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people. The [... more]
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Families of Fortune: Life in the Gilded Age
Never in history were greater fortunes made and spent than in the Gilded Age, a period of immense prosperity that lasted in Europe from the 1870s through 1914 and in the United States until the Crash of 1929. This beautiful and richly illustrated book [... more]
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In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire Along the Inside ...
In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage [... more]
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The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodux to America
Between 1846 and 1851, more than one-million people--the potato famine emigrants--sailed from Ireland to America. Now, 150 years later, The Famine Ships tells of the courage and determination of those who crossed the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded [... more]
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