American Environmentalism And The Visage Of A Second Gilded Age

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-252
Author(s):  
Benjamin H. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Corporate Power ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
Thomas Piketty

The moniker “Gilded Age” invokes questions of wealth, class, and political economy. When paired with a subsequent “Progressive Era,” as in the name of this journal and the society that sponsors it, the implication is that economic developments after the Civil War gave rise to pressing questions of workplace safety, income distribution, monopoly, and the like, which reform and protest movements rightly sought to rectify. Whether to invoke the Gilded Age to describe the current era of U.S. history also centers on such questions: it makes sense to say that we are living in a Second Gilded Age, Thomas Piketty and others have argued, because inequalities of wealth and the rise of corporate power echo those of the 1880s and 1890s; or, respond skeptics like Heath Carter, it is not a helpful comparison because the cultural and organizational forces contesting inequality are so much weaker now.

scholarly journals Book Review: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Historical Exploration of Literature

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Bartlett
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Chicano Movement ◽  
Jazz Age ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Civil War Era

One of the latest volumes in ABC-CLIO/Greenwood’s “Historical Explorations of Literature” series, The Gilded Age and Progressive Era is a useful and interesting introduction to framing key literary works of this time period in their historical context. Each volume in the series presents a discussion of four or five representative works of a historical era, such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Chicano Movement, the Jazz Age, and the Civil War Era.

Writing African American Migrations

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
Jack S. Blocker
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Future Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Civil War Era ◽  
The Philadelphia Negro

Efforts to write the history of the African American migrations of the Civil War era, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era began soon after the start of these historically significant movements. Early scholarship labored to surmount the same methodological obstacles faced by modern scholars, notably scarce documentation, but still produced pathbreaking studies such as W. E. B. Du Bois'sThe Philadelphia Negro, Carter Woodson'sA Century of Negro Migration, and Clyde Kiser'sSea Island to City. Modern scholarship since the 1950s falls into eight distinct genres. An assessment of representative works in each genre reveals a variety of configurations of strengths and weaknesses, while offering guidelines for future research.

Response 1: “For We Had Hugged the Delusion…”

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-231
Author(s):  
James L. Huston
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Equal Chance ◽  
Short Piece ◽  
The Subject ◽  
George Iii

I wish to thank the editors of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era for giving me a chance to react to Richard Schneirov's engaging article on periodizing the Gilded Age. I tend to agree with his generalizations and approach to the subject, having only some small qualifications to offer, largely concerning the quest for periodization, the timing of the break from one type of society to another, and the role of the Civil War. It seems that modern historians have revised somewhat the comment of George III to Edward Gibbons, “Scribble, scribble, scribble, eh, Mr. Gibbons?” Now it has become, “Quibble, quibble, quibble, eh, Mr. Historian?” Well, such seems to be our fate. However, on one interpretation there is no quibbling at all: somewhere in the years called the Gilded Age came the mightiest transition that the society of the United States has ever experienced. The quote in the title of this short piece attests to the realization that such was the case: it is from the Brahmin historian, James Ford Rhodes writing about the Great Railroad Strike of 1877: “For we had hugged the delusion that such social uprisings belonged to Europe and had no reason of being in a free republic where there was plenty of room and an equal chance for all.” The political economy inherited from the Revolution had failed, and it was beginning to be recognized that a new political economy was emerging.

Tracking Down “The Public Man”

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-517
Author(s):  
Daniel W. Crofts
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
The Public ◽  
Popular Magazine ◽  
Real Person

What, one might ask, is The Diary of a Public Man, and why should subscribers to The Journal of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era want to know about it? The diary purportedly dates from the tension-filled weeks preceding the outbreak of the Civil War, but it was first published in a popular magazine in 1879. Its appearance then suggested that somebody thought it would attract an audience of Gilded Age readers, which indeed happened. Their curiosity was intensified because the diary's publisher concealed the identity of its author. We now know why the alleged diarist had to be cloaked in anonymity—the supposed prewar diary actually was written shortly before its publication, long into the postwar era. Most outrageously, the diarist proves to have been an imaginary construct—not a real person.

Reimagining the “Lost Men” of the Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Late Nineteenth Century Presidents

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles W. Calhoun
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Bright Light ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dark Ages ◽  
Late Nineteenth

For much of the twentieth century, scholars treated the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era as starkly contrasting phases in the unfolding of the American story: the post-Civil War dark ages followed by the bright light of the early twentieth century. More recently, historians have recognized the oversimplification if not downright wrongheadedness of that dichotomy. The past few decades have witnessed an explosion of studies on a variety of topics with coverage dates roughly from the 1870s to the 1920s. Most of these newer works underscore the continuities between the two periods and the relatively seamless evolution of forces and institutions.

Book Reviews

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-153
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
Partisan Change ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The Rich ◽  
University Of Massachusetts

Robert Pollin of University of Massachusetts, Amherst reviews “Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age” by Larry M. Bartels,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Examines the validity of many myths about politics in contemporary America, using the widening gap between the rich and the poor to shed disturbing light on the workings of American democracy. Discusses the new Gilded Age; the partisan political economy; class politics and partisan change; partisan biases in economic accountability; whether Americans care about inequality; when Homer gets a tax cut; the strange appeal of estate tax repeal; the eroding minimum wage; economic inequality and political representation; and unequal democracy. Bartels is Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs and Director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. Index.”

scholarly journals New Perspectives on Socialism II Socialism and Capitalism Reconsidered

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-360
Author(s):  
Richard Schneirov
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Era ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Socialist Party ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
History Of ◽  
Socialist Party Of America

The July 2003 special issue of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era revisited the history of the Socialist Party of America during the Progressive Era. This second issue on “New Perspectives on Socialism” examines socialism largely outside the party context, thereby challenging the tendency of scholars and non-scholars alike to identify socialism with a party-based political movement. To the degree that the essays collected here examine party-based socialism, they focus on the gradualist or revisionist wing of the party, whose socializing and democratic reforms, programs, and ideas helped establish a context for the Progressive Era and thereafter, when a “social democratic” type of politics became intrinsic to the mainstream American politics.

The political economy of civil war in Nepal

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 1237-1253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kishor Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Civil War ◽  
The Political
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