The Gilded Age & Progressive Era: A Student Companion

by Karen Manners Smith and Elisabeth Israels Perry

This Companion is an alphabetical encyclopedia of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era (GAPE) in the United States, beginning in 1877 with the end of Reconstruction and extending to 1919-20, the end of World War I and the beginning of the Harding administration. Combining materials from traditional political history with newer materials from social, ethnic, and cultural history, the book reflects historiographic trends that have influenced the writing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195156706
• ISBN13: 9780195156706
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 3.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.7" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Good Starting Point

Good primer level reference. Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is a better work, frankly, but hard to find in its whole three volumes. So this is less expensive and easier.