A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

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 -- References -- 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 -- References -- 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 -- References -- Further reading -- Chapter Five The Midwest and Far West during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era -- The Midwest -- Politics -- The Far West -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Six Environment: Nature, Conservation, and the Progressive State -- References -- Further reading -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- Further reading -- Chapter Nine African Americans -- References -- Further reading -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter Eleven Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity -- Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity -- Conclusion -- References -- 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 -- References -- Further reading -- 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 -- References -- Further Reading -- 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 -- Future Directions -- References -- Further Reading -- Part IV Economics, Science, and Technology -- Chapter Sixteen American Capitalism: From the Atlantic Economy to Domestic Industrialization -- Capital -- Geography -- Politics and the State -- References -- Further reading -- 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 -- References -- 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" -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter Nineteen Science and Technology -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter Twenty The Rise of a Modern Concept of "Health" -- Professional Medicine -- Public Health -- The Pharmaceutical Industry -- Health and Popular Culture -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- 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 -- References -- Chapter Twenty-Two Political Movers and Shakers -- The Politics of Populism -- Progressivism -- Progressivism's Hiatus -- References -- Further Reading -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Twenty-Four Woodrow Wilson -- Early Life -- Progressive Presidency -- International Relations -- Legacy and Reputation -- References -- 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 -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter Twenty-Six Congress in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era -- References -- Further Reading -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- 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 -- References -- Further Reading -- 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 -- References -- Chapter Thirty Empire, Expansion, and Its Consequences -- Introduction -- Imperial Conditions and Imperial Futures -- Against Exceptionalism -- The Optics of Difference -- After the "American Century" -- Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Empire -- References -- Further Reading -- 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 -- References -- Further Reading -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- 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.

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