The Gilded Age
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1884 |
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Author | : Esther Crain |
Publisher | : Black Dog & Leventhal |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 031635368X |
The drama, expansion, mansions and wealth of New York City's transformative Gilded Age era, from 1870 to 1910, captured in a magnificently illustrated hardcover. In forty short years, New York City suddenly became a city of skyscrapers, subways, streetlights, and Central Park, as well as sprawling bridges that connected the once-distant boroughs. In Manhattan, more than a million poor immigrants crammed into tenements, while the half of the millionaires in the entire country lined Fifth Avenue with their opulent mansions. The Gilded Age in New York captures what is was like to live in Gotham then, to be a daily witness to the city's rapid evolution. Newspapers, autobiographies, and personal diaries offer fascinating glimpses into daily life among the rich, the poor, and the surprisingly large middle class. The use of photography and illustrated periodicals provides astonishing images that document the bigness of New York: the construction of the Statue of Liberty; the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge; the shimmering lights of Luna Park in Coney Island; the mansions of Millionaire's Row. Sidebars detail smaller, fleeting moments: Alice Vanderbilt posing proudly in her "Electric Light" ball gown at a society-changing masquerade ball; immigrants stepping off the boat at Ellis Island; a young Theodore Roosevelt witnessing Abraham Lincoln's funeral. The Gilded Age in New York is a rare illustrated look at this amazing time in both the city and the country as a whole. Author Esther Crain, the go-to authority on the era, weaves first-hand accounts and fascinating details into a vivid tapestry of American society at the turn of the century. Praise for New-York Historical Society New York City in 3D In The Gilded Age, also by Esther Crain: "Vividly captures the transformation from cityscape of horse carriages and gas lamps 'bursting with beauty, power and possibilities' as it staggered into a skyscraping Imperial City." -Sam Roberts, The New York Times "Get a glimpse of Edith Wharton's world." - Entertainment Weekly Must List "What better way to revisit this rich period . . ?" - Library Journal
Author | : Charles William Calhoun |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780742550384 |
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.
Author | : Howard Wayne MORGAN |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1442903260 |
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Businessmen |
ISBN | : |
Satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : anboco |
Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 2016-08-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3736407610 |
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is a novel, satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America in the era now referred to as the Gilded Age. Although not one of Twain's best-known works, it has appeared in more than one hundred editions since its original publication. Twain and Warner originally had planned to issue the novel with illustrations by Thomas Nast. The book is remarkable for two reasons–-it is the only novel Twain wrote with a collaborator, and its title very quickly became synonymous with graft, materialism, and corruption in public life.
Author | : Mark Warner, Charles Dudley Twain |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3732644480 |
Reproduction of the original: The Gilded Age by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
Author | : Charles William Calhoun |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Broad in scope, The Gilded Age consists of 14 original essays, each written by an expert in the field. Topics have been selected so that students can appreciate the various societal and cultural factors that make studying the Gilded Age crucial to our understanding of America today. The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that had emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advancement of the cities had transformed American society. Professor Calhoun has written a comprehensive introduction that places each article in an understandable historical context. Each essay concludes with a list of suggested readings. The Gilded Age: Essays on the Origins of Modern America will be welcomed by professors and students examining one of the most fascinating eras in America's history.
Author | : Sean Dennis Cashman |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1993-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814714951 |
**** New edition (an earlier version is cited in BCL3). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Christopher McKnight Nichols |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2017-03-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1118913965 |
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