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Tag Archives: Gilded Age
The Jungle
The Jungle © 1906 Upton Sinclair 475 pages Welcome to The Jungle, but we don’t have fun and games. We have despair, ruin, and death. The Jungle begins as the story of the Rudkus-Lukoszaite family, who have arrived in America … Continue reading
Horses at Work
Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America© 2008 Ann Norton Greene322 pages The quintessential image of horses in American history is the cowboy, of rough men moving cattle in the wilderness on horseback. But follow the cattle, and their … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged America, American Civil War, animal domestication, energy, Gilded Age, history, transportation
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Last Call
Last Call: the Rise and Fall of Prohibition © 2010 Daniel Okrent 480 pages “Law and order should not ruin the lives of law-abidin’ people! Like that stupid law of Prohibition they had in the old days. Gangsters had to go … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 1920s, America, food and drink, Gilded Age, history, law and disorder
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Satisfaction Guaranteed
Satisfaction Guaranteed: the Making of the American Mass Market© 2004 Susan Strasser348 pages America was born of the frontier, its citizens people who by necessity often manufactured their own household requirements. This was the case throughout most of the 19th … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged business, commerce, consumerism, critical history, Gilded Age, goods/services, history, marketing, social history, Susan Strasser
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Blood, Iron, and Gold
Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World© 2009 Christian Wolmar376 pages Outside of the wheel, the railways may be the single most influential form of transportation ever invented by human beings. This is a bold claim, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Gilded Age, goods/services, history, survey, technology, Technology and Society, transportation
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Unfamiliar Fishes
Unfamiliar Fishes© 2011 Sarah Vowell238 pages For those accustomed to Sarah Vowell’s usual approach to history — one offering contemporary political allusions and biting wit — Unfamiliar Fishes will seem decidedly straightforward. Her introduction describing 1898 as a perhaps more pivotal … Continue reading
Disaster 1906
Disaster 1906: the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire© 1967 Edward F. Dolan Jr.172 pages If, as some say, God spanked the town For being over-frisky Why did He burn the churches down And save Hotaling’s whisky? -p. 175 Years ago … Continue reading
Electric Universe
Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity© 2005 David Bodanis308 pages When you’re in the dark, and you want to see, you need Electricity, E-LEC-TRICITY! (School House Rock, “Electricity“) Every now and again, I misjudge a book and find … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews, science
Tagged BnB 2011 Nonfiction Reading Challenge, Gilded Age, history, history of science, Physics, science, WW2
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This Week at the Library (29 December)
Aside from the books I’ve already done full comments on, I also finished The Great American Wolf and The Golden Door. My observations about them were shortish, so I decided to include them here instead of making seperate, strangely short … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Gilded Age, history, Isaac Asimov, Nature, week in review
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The Imperial Cruise
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War© 2009 James Bradley387 pages They may be sovereign countries, but you folks at home forget That they all want what we’ve got, but they don’t know it yet. (Billy Bragg, … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged America, critical history, Gilded Age, history, James Bradley, Japan, military
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