From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail: The Transformation of Politics and Governance in the Gilded Age

by Charles W. Calhoun

Book Overview

In the wake of civil war, American politics were racially charged and intensely sectionalist, with politicians waving the proverbial bloody shirt and encouraging their constituents, as Republicans did in 1868, to "vote as you shot." By the close of the century, however, burgeoning industrial development and the roller-coaster economy of the post-war decades had shifted the agenda to pocketbook concerns-the tariff, monetary policy, business regulation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809047934
• ISBN13: 9780809047932
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"