The Shaping of Modern America, 1877-1920

In the years between the Civil War and the First World War, Americans lived in a nation quite different from that of their parents, the values of a burgeoning industrial and urban society transformed traditional notions of democracy. Far-reaching developments-the eclipsing of countryside and farm by city and factory, substantial changes in communications and transportation, a large wave of immigration, the rise of labor unions, and the emergence of the United States as a world power-gave these years a distinctive character and established the foundations of modern America. The new third edition has been revised to reflect the latest scholarship on the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. Includes 21 illustrations.