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By Christopher M. Nichols,Nancy C. Unger

A better half to the Gilded Age and revolutionary period presents a suite of latest historiographic essays overlaying the years among 1877 and 1920, a interval which observed the U.S. emerge from the ashes of Reconstruction to develop into a global power.

  • The unmarried, definitive source for the most recent nation of information when it comes to the historical past and historiography of the Gilded Age and revolutionary Era
  • Features contributions by way of best students in a variety of proper specialties
  • Coverage of the interval comprises geographic, social, cultural, financial, political, diplomatic, ethnic, racial, gendered, non secular, worldwide, and ecological subject matters and approaches
  • In today’s period, sometimes called a “second Gilded Age,” this ebook bargains proper historic research of the criteria that helped create modern society
  • Fills an enormous chronological hole in period-based American background collections

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