The Gilded Age
Subtitle: a history in documents
By: Janette Thomas Greenwood.
Contributors: Greenwood, Janette Thomas.
Series: Pages from history
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: United States -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Sources -- Juvenile literature; United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918 -- Sources -- Juvenile literature; United States -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Sources
Genres: Sources; Juvenile literature.; Sources.
Description: Uses a wide variety of documents to show how Americans dealt with an age of extremes from 1887 to 1900, including rapid industrialization, unemployment, unprecedented wealth, and immigration.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-183) and index.