The Medicine of Art: Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America 1501346873, 9781501346873

The Medicine of Art: Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America 9781501346873, 9781501346903

In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, “Health—is the thing!” Though recently

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America in the Gilded Age: Third Edition 9780814723616

When the first edition of America in the Gilded Age was published in 1984, it soon acquired the status of a classic, and

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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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Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America 9780814786536

From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progressivist soc

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The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America 9781250128874

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Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America 9780226824444

Uncertain Climes looks to the late nineteenth century to reveal how climate anxiety was a crucial element in the emergen

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Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age 9780520352568, 9780520272453

Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age offers a stunning new look at late-nineteenth-century American art,

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The Gilded Age Cookbook 9781493069460, 9781493069453

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The Aesthetic Function of Art 9781501727306

How can we understand art and its impact? Gary Iseminger argues that the function of the practice of art and the informa

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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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