Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on September 14, 2009
Enterprise and Society 2009 10(4):873-874; doi:10.1093/es/khp053
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James T. Wall. Wall Street and the Fruited Plain: Money, Expansion and Politics in the Gilded Age
James T. Wall. Wall Street and the Fruited Plain: Money, Expansion and Politics in the Gilded Age. Latham, MD: University Press of America, 2008. 394 pp. ISBN 978-0761841241, $ 49.00 (cloth)
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James T. Wall's Wall Street and the Fruited Plain offers a conventional overview of American history in the years 1865–1901, the Gilded Age. Bereft of footnotes and with a slender bibliography of cited works, it is long on descriptive detail and short on analysis. The author clearly intended this work
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