Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age

by Thomas Adams Upchurch

The Gilded Age was an important three-decade period in American history. It was a time of transition, when the United States began to recover from its Civil War and post-war rebuilding phase. It was as a time of progress in technology and industry, of regression in race relations, and of stagnation in politics and foreign affairs. It was a time when poor southerners began farming for a mere share of the crop rather than for wages, when pioneers settled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810858290
• ISBN13: 9780810858299
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.6"