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Corporation Nation: How Corporations are Taking Over Our Lives -- and What We Can Do About It
by Charles Derber
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with references to "Gilded Age".
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... both of which have effectively removed the issue of corporate sovereignty from national consciousness. But in the Gilded Age, one hundred years ago, and half a century later in the New Deal, ... "
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Gilded Age, New Deal, United States, Third Sector, Wall Street, Christian Right, positive populism, corporate mystique, corporate ascendancy, positive populists, chartering system, stakeholder statutes
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The Oxford Companion to United States History (Oxford Companions)
by Paul S. Boyer
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with references to "Gilded Age".
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... the geologist Clarence King, and the artist John LaFarge. His anonymous novel Democracy (1880) summed up his dis- gust with *Gilded Age Washington politics. Marian Adams's suicide in 1885 deepened Adam's already pessimistic and neg- ative outlook on many aspects of modern ... "
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The Origins of American Social Science (Ideas in Context)
by Dorothy Ross
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with references to "Gilded Age".
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... in the disguised form of nostalgic fiction, and William Dean Howells ironically noted the resemblance of Southern sociology to the Gilded Age critique of capitalism, but the pro- slavery argument could not bear direct emulation. ... "
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The Gilded Age: A History in Documents (Pages from History)
by Janette Thomas Greenwood
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... a THE GILDED AGE An Age of Invention I nventions, which proliferated during the Gilded Age, sometimes generated their own corporations. Thomas Edison, who ... "
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United States, Gilded Age, New York, Sitting Bull, Jim Crow, Native Americans, North Carolina, People's Party, Standard Oil, Jane Addams, Coney Island, urban reformers
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