Book review: China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-245
Author(s):  
Li Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Gilded Age ◽  
Economic Boom

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.

scholarly journals Book Review: Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age by Susan Crawford

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Elliott Hibbler
Keyword(s):  
Gilded Age ◽  
Monopoly Power ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Cable Industry ◽  
Rate Of Growth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Telecom Industry

Susan Crawford’s Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age is a timely book on an industry whose rate of growth is only outpaced by its rate of change.Crawford traces the concentration of monopoly power in telecommunications, using Comcast as the story’s main character. The book’s focus is the 2010 merger of Comcast and NBC Universal, which tied several strands of the industry together. Not only is the book a fascinating history of the rise of an industry, it doubles as a manual on how the administrative apparatus of government operates.The book would benefit from a deeper exploration of the wireless market. However, without the same defining merger as in the cable industry (yet), using Comcast to drive the narrative is a reasonable and satisfying choice for readers of any level of familiarity with the topic.

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