The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America - Paperback

by Charles W. Calhoun (Editor), Eric Arnesen (Contribution by), Robert G. Barrows (Contribution by)

Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments. These engaging pieces allow students to consider the various societal, cultural and political factors that make studying the Gilded Age crucial to our understanding of America today.

Author Biography

Charles W. Calhoun received his doctorate in history from Columbia University. He is professor of history at East Carolina University, and author of Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869-1900, Benjamin Harrison, and Gilded Age Cato: The Life of Walter Q. Gresham.