Archie and Amélie: love and madness in the Gilded Age [1st pbk. ed] 9780307351456, 9780307345837, 0307351459

The Gilded Age 9780307432261

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The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism

Half a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized world was wit

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The Gilded Age 9780313062216, 9780313322044

"While learning about government, great leaders, and war is obviously crucial to the study of history, learning abo

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Claims and Speculations : Mining and Writing in the Gilded Age [1 ed.] 9780826351418, 9780826351395

Mines have always been hard and dangerous places. They have also been as dependent upon imaginative writing as upon the

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Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age 9780231539265

Edward T. O'Donnell's exploration of Henry George's life and times merges labor, ethnic, intellectual, an

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The Wealth of the Elite: Toward a New Gilded Age [1st ed.] 9789811521478, 9789811521485

This book analyses the processes through which the modern forms of large fortunes are amassed. Despite the recent spate

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Gilded Age [1 ed.] 9781760461997, 9781760461980

According to the Chinese zodiac, 2017 was the year of the 'fire rooster', an animal often associated with the

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The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America 9780226652023

In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection. Thirty yea

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Profits and Politics: Beaverbrook and the Gilded Age of Canadian Finance [1 ed.] 9781442678804, 9780802007407

It has been said of Max Aitken (later Lord Beaverbrook) that 'no other Canadian carved his name so large upon his t

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Coxey’s Crusade for Jobs: Unemployment in the Gilded Age 9781501756900

In the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessman named Jacob Coxey led a group of joble

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