What Would Mrs. Astor Do?: The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Cecelia TichiSeries:Washington Mews BooksPublish date:2018-11-27Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Washington Mews Books/Nyu PressISBN-13:9781479826858ISBN-10:1479826855UPC:9781479826858Book Category:History, ReferenceBook Subcategory:United States, Etiquette, Social HistoryBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.00 x 5.90 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC77V1GXBT
A richly illustrated romp with America's Gilded Age leisure class--and those angling to join it
Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States' population doubled, accompanied by an unparalleled industrial expansion, and an explosion of wealth unlike any the world had ever seen. America was the foremost nation of the world, and New York City was its beating heart....Language:EnglishPublisher:Washington Mews Books/Nyu PressISBN-13:9781479826858ISBN-10:1479826855UPC:9781479826858Book Category:History, ReferenceBook Subcategory:United States, Etiquette, Social HistoryBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.00 x 5.90 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC77V1GXBT
Cecelia Tichi is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University. Her books include Jazz Age Cocktails, Gilded Age Cocktails, What Would Mrs. Astor Do? The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age and Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America. Her mystery fiction includes the "Val and Roddy DeVere Gilded"...
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