The Gilded Age: Or the Hazard of New Functions

About this book

A very broad balanced accessible account of the Gilded Age (1865-1901) that includes all the recent scholarship on this period and offers a portrait of the economic political social and cultural history of the age. American resourcefulness is shown at its best and worst. Discusses how the conservatism of thought and radicalism of technological change remade the Gilded Age and how society tempered the applications of each. So too are mainstream politics and religion. This is a rich colorful narrative about a complex period in American history.