The Incorporation of America: Culture & Society in the Gilded Age (American Century Series)
ISBN:
9780809001453 (0809001454)
Publish date: March 1st 1982
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Pages no: 276
Edition language: English
About equal parts polemic and accessible undergraduate summary of the Gilded Age. Trachtenberg begins with Charles Francis Adams Jr.’s observation that “We have no word to express government by monied corporations.” Trachetenberg claims the “deepest changes” and the “deepest resistances” to “these...