Introduction: A "Gilded Age"?
PART I THE WEDGE, 1865-1890
1. An Uneasy Peace: The Legacies of Civil War
2. Reach: Energy, Corporations, and People in the Global Economy
3. Work: Moving Up or Getting By
4. A State of War: The Violence of Incorporation
PART II THE
EXCHANGE
5. Money
6. Youth
7. Sex
8. Faith
9. Science
PART III THE FIRES, 1890-1905
10. Cooperative Dreams: Populists and Progressives
11. Executive Powers: Presidents, Corporations, and American Empire
Epilogue: The Partridges and the
Hippopotamus
Questions for Discussion
Index
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Rebecca Edwards is Professor of History on the Eloise Ellery Chair at Vassar College. She is the author of Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era (OUP, 1997) and coauthor, with James A. Henretta and Robert O. Self, of America's
History, Seventh Edition (2011).
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