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New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905
New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905 provides a fascinating look at one of the most crucial chapters in U.S. history. Rejecting the stereotype of a "Gilded Age" dominated by "robber barons," author Rebecca Edwards invites us to look more closely at the period when the United States became a modern industrial nation and asserted its place as a leader on the w...more
Paperback, 296 pages
Published
December 8th 2005
by Oxford University Press
(first published 2005)
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Edwards offers a fascinating and insightful introduction to a very important period in the history of the United States, as the nation emerged from its own civil war into a world power with imperialist ambitions. I found Edwards's chapters on changing attitudes about sexuality, women, and labor to be particularly interesting. She offers both the "man-on-the-ground" view (which I find is the most compelling way to read history) as well as tracking the important political and diplomatic events of...more
This is a great read about the History of the Gilded Age, not just a text book read, but greatread from cover to cover especially for lovers of history.
I'm a huge fan of Edwards' work; however, there a several factual inaccuracies in this book that call into question the legitimacy of the author's research.
Edwards talks in this book about taking a different few of the Gilded Age and wants the reader to ignore there general stereotypes about what the time period really stood for. It does well to incorporate many different views from a variety of sources of different class and racial backgrounds. That is the up. The down is that the book is a bit dry and not the most fun read. Overall, it left me feeling "meh".
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