2 5 th Anniversary Edition ae EN ‘atin AT LON Or AMEKICA BM “A fresh and stimulating interpretation of American society during the last decades of the nineteenth century.” ’ e —Joun M. Buuy, Yale University i Culture and Society in the Gilded Age ALAN TRACHTENBERG | ' te , 7 q -» ert ooomss FARRAR Ss RAS —s osff | R 0)| ) X DATE DUE DEMICNCO. 38,-29 31 ALSO BY ALAN TRACHTENBERG Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans Shades ofH iawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930 Lincoln’s Smile and Other Enigmas THE INCORPORATION of AMERICA THE oe TION O AMERICA Culture and Society in the Gilded Age ALAN TRACHTENBERG TABOR COLLEGE LIBRARY Hillsboro, Kansas 67063 ® HILL ann WANG A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux New York Hill and Wang A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux 19 Union Square West, New York 10003 Copyright © 1982, 2007 by Alan Trachtenberg All rights reserved Distributed in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre Ltd. Printed in the United States of America First edition published in 1982 by Hill and Wang Twenty-fifth anniversary edition, 2007 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Trachtenberg, Alan. The incorporation of America : culture and society in the gilded age / Alan Trachtenberg. — 25th anniversary ed. p- cm. ISBN-13: 978-0-8090-5828-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-8090-5828-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. United States—Civilization—1865-1918. I. Title. E169.1.T72 2007 973.8—dc22 2006046733 Designed by Nancy Dale Muldoon www.fsgbooks.com I 3S 7 poy dOws: 6 4 2 For my parents and my children