From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail: The Transformation of Politics and Governance in the Gilded Age
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In the wake of civil war, American politics were racially charged and intensely sectionalist, with politicians waving the proverbial bloody shirt and encouraging their constituents, as Republicans did in 1868, to "vote as you shot." By the close of the century, however, burgeoning industrial development and the roller-coaster economy of the post-war decades had shifted the agenda to pocketbook concerns-the tariff, monetary policy, business regulation...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0809047934
ISBN13:9780809047932
Release Date:August 2010
Publisher:Hill & Wang
Length:210 Pages
Weight:0.15 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"
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19th Century History Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social SciencesCustomer Reviews
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