A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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<i>A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era</i>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.<br /><ul><li>The single, definitive resource for the latest state of knowledge relating to the history and historiography of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era</li><li>Features contributions by leading scholars in a wide range of relevant specialties</li><li>Coverage of the period includes geographic, social, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, ethnic, racial, gendered, religious, global, and ecological themes and approaches</li><li>In todays era, often referred to as a second Gilded Age, this book offers relevant historical analysis of the factors that helped create contemporary society</li><li>Fills an important chronological gap in period-based American history collections</li></ul>

Autorenportrait

<p><b>Christopher McKnight Nichols</b> is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University. He is author of the award-winning book,<i>Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age</i> (2011), co-editor of<i>Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America's Imminent Secularization from the Puritans to the Present Day</i> (2008), and Senior Editor of the two volume<i>Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History</i>(2013).</p><p><b>Nancy C. Unger</b> is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. She is the author of<i>Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History</i> (2012) and the award-winning biographies<i>Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer</i> (2000), and<i>Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer</i> (2016).</p>

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