What Would Mrs. Astor Do? : : The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age / / Cecelia Tichi.
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 e...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Washington Mews ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 12 Illustrations, color, 74 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Splendors of the Gilded Age
- Mrs. Astor Speaks
- Millionaires’ Row
- Convenience or Contraption
- Competitive Consumption
- Best Dressed
- Well Behaved
- Dinner Is Served
- The Social Set
- The Sporting Life
- Getting There
- Money Talks
- The Whiff of Scandal
- On the Scene: Boldface Names in New York
- Muckrakers
- Funerals
- Mrs. Astor’s Four Hundred
- Acknowledgments
- Selected Sources
- Illustration Credits
- About the Author