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Informationen zum Autor Christopher McKnight Nichols is professor of history and Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, at the Ohio State University. An Andrew Carnegie Fellow and award-winning scholar and teacher, Nichols is the author or editor of six books, including Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age (2011) and Rethinking American Grand Strategy (2021). Nancy C. Unger , President of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2021-2023, is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. She is the author of the award-winning biographies Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer (2000; revised paperback 2008), and Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer (2016). Her book Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History (2012), was a California Book Award Finalist. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors vii Introduction: Gilded Excesses, Multiple Progressivisms 1 Christopher McKnight Nichols and Nancy C. Unger Part I Overview ¿ Definitions, Precursors, and Geographies 5 1 Reconstructing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 7 Heather Cox Richardson 2 Precursors to Gilded Age and Progressive Era Reforms 21 James M. Beeby and Brian M. Ingrassia 3 Urban America 31 Michael B. Kahan 4 The South 44 Amy Louise Wood 5 The Midwest and Far West during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 58 Thomas J. Jablonsky 6 Environment: Nature, Conservation, and the Progressive State 71 Benjamin Johnson Part II Sex, Race, and Gender 85 7 Gender 87 Kimberly A. Hamlin 8 Inventing Sexuality: Ideologies, Identities, and Practices in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 102 Leigh Ann Wheeler 9 African Americans 116 Omar H. Ali 10 From Dispossessed Wards to Citizen Activists: American Indians Survive the Assimilation Policy Era 124 Alexandra Harmon 11 Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity 137 Julie Greene Part III Art, Thought, and Culture 149 12 Art and Architecture 151 Alan Lessoff 13 Religion in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 165 Matthew Bowman 14 Journalism 178 Bruce J. Evensen 15 Popular Culture 19 Julia Guarneri Part IV Economics, Science, and Technology 203 16 American Capitalism: From the Atlantic Economy to Domestic Industrialization 205 Noam Maggor 17 Nonprofit Organizations, Philanthropy,...
