The Gilded Age

by Joel Shrock

Overview

Twelve narrative chapters chronicle how American culture changed and grew near the end of the 20th century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313062216
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/30/2004
Series:	American Popular Culture Through History Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Joel Shrock earned his PhD from Miami University and is currently an instructor of history at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities. He has authored an article on race and rape in silent film and co-authored another on student protest of the Vietnam War, which appears in the Greenwood Press volume of essays The Vietnam War on Campus: Other Voices, More Distant Drums. He is currently completing a manuscript on popular children's literature in the Gilded Age.

Table of Contents

	Series Foreword	ix
	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	xiii
	Timeline of Popular Culture, 1875-1900	xvii
1	Everyday America	1
2	World of Youth	27
3	Advertising	41
4	Architecture	61
5	Fashion	79
6	Food	97
7	Leisure Activities	117
8	Literature	151
9	Music	183
10	Performing Arts	205
11	Travel	225
12	Visual Arts	253
	Cost of Products, 1890-1899	271
	Notes	277
	Further Reading	299
	Index	305

Editorial Reviews

While learning about government, great leaders, and war is obviously crucial to the study of history, learning about the everyday life of the regular man and woman is just as important in gaining a holistic view of the past. Greenwood excels at looking at history this way. . . . [E]asy to read and informative. . . . [R]ecommended for high-school, undergraduatem and public libraries. Could just as well be placed in the circulating collection as in reference.” —Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

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