Gilded Age and Progressive Era America Book Reports All graduate and post-baccalaureate students will write reviews on four scholarly books from four different sections listed below. The books on the following list are considered scholarly. The instructor may approve other scholarly books. All books must be approved by the instructor. Bring books for approval to the instructor's office during office hours, or make an appointment with the instructor. To be acceptable, the text of a book must be at least 180 pages (not counting appendices, bibliography, index, or any other supplementary materials). You may not choose two books from any section. Each book review will consist of 1000-1500 words. Reports will contain a statement of the book's thesis (check book reviews if you are not sure), a summary of the author's argument, a statement of why the book is important, the assessment of reviewers, and the student's own evaluation of the work. The student will cite at least two scholarly book reviews that he/she has consulted. Check Reviews in American History for books published after 1972. Otherwise, check America: History and Life on the Meyer Library web page (under "Articles and Databases") to find other suitable reviews. Reviews in American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of the Gilded Ahe and Progressive Era, and the major regional and state journals are preferred.
Book
reviews are due at the beginning of class on February
14, March 21, April 11, and May 17.
Late work will be penalized. Email your book
reviews to
BobMiller@MissouriState.edu
BOOK LIST 1. INDUSTRIALIZATION Edward C. Kirkland, Industry Comes of Age: Business, Labor and Public Policy, 1880-1897 HC103 .E25 v.6 Robert Higgs, The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914 Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business HF5343 .C584 Daniel Nelson, Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management T55.85 .T38 N44 Martin J. Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism HC110 .C3 S58 1988 John Stover, American Railroads HE2751 .S7 Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867- 1960 (pp 1-231 = 1867-1921) HG 538 .F86 Tony Freyer, Regulating Big Business: Antitrust in Great Britain and America, 1880-1990 HD3616 .G673 F79 1992 Sarah H. Gordon, Passage to Union: How the Railroads Transformed American Life, 1829-1929 HE 2751 .G64 1997
2. INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL Richard Hofstadter, Social Darwinism in American Thought HD22 .U5 H6 1959 Sidney Fine, Laissez-Faire and the General Welfare State HN57 .F54 George M. Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925 BT82.2 .M37 Oliver Zunz, Making America Corporate, 1870-1920 HD2785 .Z86 1990 Sheila M. Rothman, Woman's Place, A History of Changing Ideals and Practices, 1870 to the Present HQ1420 .R67 Robert McCloskey, American Conservatism in the Age of Enterprise Kathryn Kish Sklar, Catherine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity HQ1413 .B4 S54 Perry Duis, The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920 HV4201.S6 D84 1983 David Pivar, Purity Crusade: Sexual Morality and Social Control, 1868-1900 HQ125 .U6 P57 T.J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture
3. THE AMERICAN WEST Walter Prescott Webb, The Great Plains 978 W384 Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land F591 .S65 Rodman Paul, The Far West and the Great Plains in Transition, 1859-1900 F595 .P27 1988 Robert Dykstra, Cattle Towns HD9433 .U5 K215 Gilbert Fite, The Farmer's Frontier S441 .F48 1966 Glenda Riley, The Female Frontier HQ1438 .G75 R55 1988 Sandra L. Myres, Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915 HQ1410 .M96 1982 Ralph K. Andrist, The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indians E78 .W5 A593 1969 Robert M. Utley, Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890 E81 .U747 1984 Robert M. Utley, The Last Days of the Sioux Nation E99 .D1 U9 Richard White, Its Your Misfortune and None of My Own
4. THE NEW SOUTH Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South F215 .A94 1992 C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South Gaines M. Foster, Ghost of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913 F215 .F694 1987 Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch, One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation HC107 .A13 R28 Gavin Wright, Old South, New South HC107 .A13 W67 1986 Jonathan M. Wiener, Social Origins of the New South (Alabama) HN79 .A4 W53 Ann Firor Scott, The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930 C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow E185.61 .86 1966 Howard N. Rabinowitz, Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1900 E185.2 R23 Paul M. Gaston, The New South Creed F209 .G3 1976 David Carleton, Mill and Town in South Carolina Stephen Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism F290 .H33
5. GILDED AGE POLITICS Matthew Josephson, The Politicos 973 J77 H. Wayne Morgan, From Hayes to McKinley: National Party Politics, 1877-1896 E660 .M6 Richard Jensen, The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896 F354 .J4 John G. Sproat, "The Best Men": Liberal Reformers in the Gilded Age E661 .S65 Irwin Unger, The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879 HG604 .U5 Morton Keller, Affairs of State: Public Life in Late-Nineteenth-Century America E661 .K27 Tom Terrill, The Tariff, Politics, and American Foreign Policy, 1874-1901 HF1755 .T29 Paul Kleppner, The Third Electoral System, 1853-1892 JK1965 .K53 Stanley Hirshson, Farewell to the Bloody Shirt: Northern Republicans and the Southern Negro Rebecca Edwards, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era
6. IMMIGRANTS AND URBAN AMERICA Walter Nugent, Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914 Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted E169.1 .U76 John Bodnar, The Transplanted E184 .A1 B59 1985 Roger Daniels, Coming to America (pp. 1-284 = Colonial to 1924) Stephan Thernstrom, The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in an American Metropolis HN80 .B7 T45 David Ward, Cities and Immigrants: A Geography of Change in 19th Century America HT123 .W22 Paul Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920 HT123 .B67 Seymour Mandelbaum, Boss Tweed's New York F128.47 .M28 Zane Miller, Boss Cox's Cincinnati JS738 .M5 Howard P. Chudacoff and Judith E. Smith, The Evolution of American Urban Society David Goldfield and Blaine Brownell, Urban America Lyle Dorsett, The Pendergast Machine
7. LABOR Herbert G. Gutman, Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America HD8072 .G98 1977 Gerald Rosenblum, Immigrant Workers: Their Impact on American Labor Radicalism HD8081 .A5 R67 Leon Fink, Workingman's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics HD8055 .K7 F56 1983 Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States HD6095 .K449 1982 Daniel T. Rodgers, The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920 HD8072 .R76 Melvyn Dubofsky, Industrialism and the American Workers, 1865-1920 HD8072 .D846 1985 Harold C. Livesay, Samuel Gompers and Organized Labor in America HD6509 .G57 l58 Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist HX84.D3 .S23 1982 Ray Ginger, Eugene V. Debs: A Biography Phillip Foner, The Great Labor Uprising of 1877
8. THE NATION IN CRISIS John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 E184 .A1 H5 Paul Avrich, The Haymarket Tragedy HX846 .C4 A97 1984 Stanley Buder, Pullman: An Experiment in Industrial Order and Community Planning, 1880-1930 HD7544 .P9 B9 Carlos Schwantes, Coxey's Army: An American Odyssey HD8072 .S354 1985 Charles Hoffman, The Depression of the Nineties HC105 .H8 1970 J. Morgan Kousser, The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910 JK1936 .A2 K68 Jay Martin, Harvests of Change: American Literature, 1865-1914 PS214 .M35 John Thomas, Alternative America: Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Henry Demarest Lloyd and the Adversary Tradition HN57 .T48 1983 9. THE POPULIST REVOLT Robert C. McMath, Jr., American Populism Gene Clanton, Populism: The Humane Preference E661 .C56 1991 Worth Robert Miller, Oklahoma Populism JK2374.05 M54 1987 Lawrence Goodwyn, The Populist Moment E661 .G672 1978 Robert W. Larson, Populism in the Mountain West F721 .L27 1986 John D. Hicks, The Populist Revolt JK2372 .H5 Peter Argersinger, Populism and Politics: William Alfred Peffer and ... (Kansas) JK2372.A74 Gregg Cantrell, Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent (African-American Populist) Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform (Populism, Progressivism, and the New Deal) E743 .H63 Jeffrey Ostler, Prairie Populism Gretchen Ritter, Goldbugs and Greenbackers: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance, 1865-1896
10. IMPERIALISM Walter LaFeber, The New Empire E661.7 .L2 H. Wayne Morgan, America's Road to Empire E715 .M85 David Healy, U.S. Expansionism E713 .H45 Robert Beisner, Twelve Against Empire E713 .B47 _____, From the Old Diplomacy to the New E661.7 .B44 1975 Ernest May, Imperial Democracy E661 .M34 David Trask, The War with Spain in 1898 E715 .T7 Emily Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansionism, 1890-1945 E744 .R82 1982 Thomas J. McCormick, China Market: America's Quest for Informal Empire HF3120.M28 John Morgan Gates, Schoolbooks and Krags (Philippine Insurrection) DS679 .G38 Glenn A. May, Social Engineering in the Philippines: The Aims, Execution, and Impact of American Colonial Policy, 1900-1913 DS685 .M28 11. PROGRESSIVISM Elizabeth Sanders, Roots of Reform Robert H. Wiebe, The Search for Order E661 .W58 Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform (Populism, Progressivism, and the New Deal) E743 .H63 James Weinstein, The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State E743 .W44 David Thelen, The New Citizenship: Origins of Progressivism in Wisconsin, 1885-1900 F586 .T47 Samuel P. Hays, The Response to Industrialism HC105 .H35 John Milton Cooper, Jr., The Warrior and the Priest: TR & WW E176.1 .C7919 1983 Otis Graham, Encore for Reform E743 .G7 Lewis L. Gould, The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt E711 .G68 George Mowry, The Era of Theodore Roosevelt E756 .M85 Kendrick A. Clements, The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson E766 .C44 1992 Arthur Link, Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era E766 .L5 Morton Keller, Regulating a New Economy John Milton Cooper, The Pivotal Decades, 1900-1920 Dewey Grantham, Southern Progressivism
12. PROGRESSIVE SPINOFFS Louis Filler, The Muckrakers (Update of Crusaders for American Liberalism) HN57 .E47 1976 James R. Green, Grass-Roots Socialism JK2391 .S6 G73 James Timberlake, Prohibition and the Progressive Movement HV5089 .T55 1963 Ruth Rosen, The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America,1900- 1918 HQ144 .R76 1982 John D. Buenker, Urban Liberalism and Progressive Reform E743 .B83 Melvin Holli, Reform in Detroit: Hazen Pingree... JS838 .H64 Samuel P. Hays, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency 333.7 H334 Aileen Kraditor, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement JK1896 .K7 Allen F. Davis, Spearheads for Reform HV4194 .A3 D3 1967 Robert H. Wiebe, Businessmen and Reform E747 .W59 Mary Jo Buhle, Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 HQ1426 .B82 Lawrence Cremin, The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education Garin Burbank, When Farmers Voted Red (Socialists in Oklahoma)
13. WORLD WAR I AND AFTERMATH Robert H. Ferrell, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921 D619 .F34 1985 Ernest R. May, The World War and American Isolation, 1914-1917 D619 .M383 Thomas J. Knock, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order E767.1 .K56 1992 N. Gordon Levin, Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and Revolution E768 .L62 David Kennedy, Over Here D570.1 .K43 Lloyd E. Ambrosius, Woodrow Wilson & the American Diplomatic Tradition: The Treaty Fight... D645 .A42 1987 Arthur Link, Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War and Peace E768 .L67 1979 Walter Millis, Road to War: America, 1914-1917 D610 .M47 1970 William Preston, Jr., Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903-1930 E743.5 .P7 Maurine Weiner Greenwald, Women, War and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States HD6095 .G72 Robert Burner, The Politics of Provincialism David Trask, The AEF and Coalition Warmaking, 1917-1918
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