The Gilded Age: Or the Hazard of New Functions

by Mark Wahlgren Summers

A very broad, balanced, accessible account of the Gilded Age (1865-1901) that includes all the recent scholarship on this period and offers a portrait of the economic, political, social and cultural history of the age. American resourcefulness is shown at its best and worst. Discusses how the conservatism of thought and radicalism of technological change remade the Gilded Age, and how society tempered the applications of each. So, too, are mainstream politics and religion. This is a rich, colorful narrative about a complex period in American history.

Genres: History, The United States Of America

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 2, 1996

About the author

Mark Wahlgren Summers is Thomas D. Clark Professor of History at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.

Reviews

[Sean Chick]

The perfect textbook introduction to a forgotten era of American history.

[Adrienna]

A history of America from 1865 - 1904. Gotta read our history. It was enlightening and educational. Not much has changed except the technology. Human's are just as awful now as they were then. There was progress and regression and progress and then regression. I think we are in a regression.