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Making America, A History of the United States
Making America, Third Edition
Carol Berkin, Baruch College, City University of New York
Christopher L. Miller, The University of Texas, Pan American
Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University
James L. Gormly, Washington and Jefferson College
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Chapter 17: An Industrial Order Emerges, 1865-1880
Robert L. Beisner. From the Old Diplomacy to the New, 1865–1900 2nd
ed. (1986).
A concise introduction to American foreign
relations in this period.
Melvyn Dubofsky. Industrialism and the American
Worker, 1865–1920, 3d ed. (1996).
A brief but lively introduction to the topic,
organized chronologically.
Richard Hofstadter. Social Darwinism in
American Thought (1944).
The classic work, which has held up very well
over the years.
Ari Hoogenboom. Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President (1995).
A meaty introduction to the politics of the
era, as seen through the eyes of a key participant.
Glenn Porter. The Rise of Big Business,
1860–1910, 2d ed. (1992).
A brief introduction, surveying the role of
the railroads, vertical and horizontal integration, and the merger movement.
Frank Roney. An Autobiography Ed. by
Ira B. Cross (1931; reprint, 1976).
Roney's life story, from Irish revolutionary
to trade union activist to disillusioned old age.
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