The Gilded Age a History in Documents
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
- Publish date: 08/01/2000
The Gilded Age is remembered as a period whose "golden" veneer failed to mask the craven materialism, unbound greed, and venal politics lying at its heart. Using a wide variety of documents (letters, journals, advertisements, maps, government documents, etc.), Janette Greenwood expands this limited image of late 19th-century America, drawing the true portrait of an age of extremes. Rapid industrialization was coupled with cycles of crushing unemployment. Unprecedented accumulation of wealth co-existed with dire poverty. Wave after wave of immigrants came from Europe, diversifying American society and culture. Minority groups were repeatedly subject to racially motivated violence, yet the late 19th century was also the time when social activism became a power to be reckoned with.
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