Books by Robert Wiebe
“The Search for Order is one of those history books that seemed to define a period so thoroughly that other historians avoided the topic for decades after its release. People use Wiebe from the 1960s through the early 21st century. According to Wiebe, the real story of this period is how the United States went from being loosely connected local communities to becoming one national community; it changed from the fragmented nation it had been before the Civil War into one modern nation with a new middle class.” Read more...
The best books on The Gilded Age
Richard White, Historian
Interviews where books by Robert Wiebe were recommended
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
by Richard White -
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Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896
by Charles Postel -
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A Hazard of New Fortunes
by William Dean Howells -
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Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
by Martha Sandweiss -
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The Search for Order, 1877-1920
by Robert Wiebe
The best books on The Gilded Age, recommended by Richard White
The best books on The Gilded Age, recommended by Richard White
America’s Gilded Age, roughly from the end of the Civil War to the First World War, saw the United States go from being a rural, agricultural society to an urban and industrial one. National wealth soared and disparities between rich and poor exploded. Here, historian Richard White talks about how the Gilded Age transformed America and picks out some parallels with our own age that are not hard to see.
