Skidelsky, Britain Since 1900 (2014)

Robert Skidelsky.
Britain Since 1900: A Success Story?.
London: Vintage Books (The Random House Group Ltd.), 2014.

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In the preface Skidelsky notes that Britain Since 1900 originated as a shorter essay in the book:
A World by Itself: A History of the British Isles, edited by Jonathan Clark, London: William Heinemann, 2010; London: Pimlico, 2011 (both imprints of The Random House Group Ltd.).
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Other essays from that book have appeared as separately published volumes:

• John Gillingham, Conquests, Catastrophe and Recovery: Britain and Ireland 1066-1485, London: Vintage Books, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
• Jonathan Clark, From Restoration to Reform: The British Isles 1660-1832, London: Vintage Books, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
• William D. Rubinstein, The World Hegemon: The British Isles 1832-1914, London: Vintage Books, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]

Author Information:

• Robert Skidelsky, his official website, with links to talks, papers, etc.
• Robert Skidelsky, Institute for New Economic Thinking.
• Robert Skidelsky, Wikipedia.
• Lord Skidelsky, House of Lords.

Book Reviews:

• Owen Hatherley, Book Review, The Guardian, 10 April 2015.
• Paul Addison, Top down, Times Literary Supplement, 15 July 2015. (subscription required)

Vernon Bogdanor has delivered a series of excellent lectures on the history of Britain during the Twentieth Century:
"Britain in the Twentieth Century," Gresham College, London, 2010-2012.

Some Talks by Robert Skidelsky:
(While the book Britain Since 1900 consists mostly of general political and social history, and less economic history than one might expect given the author, most of the following talks are on economics. As of October 2015 I have not found any video of Skidelsky discussing the book Britain Since 1900.)
2009

• Robert Skidelsky, "Big Think Interview," Big Think, 2009.
  (Interview at the Big Think website.)
  Robert Skidelsky, Keynes: The Return of the Master, London: Allen Lane / Penguin Group and New York: PublicAffairs / Perseus Books Group, 2009.
  [Publisher UK; Publisher USA; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
• Robert Skidelsky, "Keynes and the Crisis of Capitalism," London School of Economics, 07 October 2009.
  (Event webpage at LSE; Video webpage at LSE.)

2010

• Robert Skidelsky, "Interpreting the Great Depression: Hayek versus Keynes," Institute for New Economic Thinking, 08 April 2010.
  Discussion after Skidelsky's and others' talks.
  (The Economic Crisis and the Crisis in Economics, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Kings College, University of Cambridge, 8-11 April 2010. This webpage has links to the conference program, PDFs of talks, and videos. YouTube playlist of conference videos.)
• Robert Skidelsky and Nicholas Phillipson, "The Economist as Philosopher: Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes on human nature, social progress and economic change," London School of Economics, 06 October 2010.
  (Event webpage at LSE; Video webpage at LSE.)
  Nicholas Phillipson, Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life, New Haven: Yale University Press and London: Penguin Books, 2010.
  [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman, London: Penguin Books, 2003.
  [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]

2011

• Robert A. Johnson, "INET's Interview with Robert Skidelsky," Institute for New Economic Thinking, February 2011.
• Robert Skidelsky, Leanne Ussher and Barry Eichengreen, "What Can We Learn from the Past in Designing the Future?" (Part 1 of 4), Institute for New Economic Thinking, 09 April 2011.
  Part 2 of 4: Leanne Ussher;
  Part 3 of 4: Barry Eichengreen;
  Part 4 of 4: Discussion + Q&A.
  (Crisis & Renewal: International Political Economy at the Crossroads, Bretton Woods Conference 2011, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Mount Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, 8-11 April 2011. This webpage has links to the conference program, PDFs of talks, and videos. YouTube playlist of conference videos not ordered by the conference schedule.)
• Robert Skidelsky and Paul Jay, "Keynes, Crisis and Monopoly Capitalism," The Real News, 29 April 2011.
  (Interview webpage at The Real News with transcript.)
• George Selgin, Robert Skidelsky, Duncan Weldon, Jamie Whyte, "Keynes v Hayek," London School of Economics, 26 July 2011.
  Introductory preparations last until time 7:29.
  (Event webpage at LSE; Video webpage at LSE; BBC Radio 4 webpage for broadcast version.)
  John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), Wikipedia.
  Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992), Wikipedia.

2012

• Robert Skidelsky, "The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the Future of International Relations," Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University, 18 April 2012.
  (Video webpage at Cornell University; Cornell news article on the talk.)
  Beginning around time 1:08:25 Skidelsky answers a question by describing the factors that caused the decline of Britain as a world power.
• Robert Skidelsky, "Robert Skidelsky on the Eurozone Crisis," "Robert Skidelsky on European Growth," Social Europe Journal, June 2012.
• Robert Skidelsky and (discussant) Maurice Glasman, "How Much is Enough? Work, Money and the Good Life," London School of Economics, 04 July 2012.
  (Event webpage at LSE; Audio webpage at LSE.)
  See also the LSE event on 29 October 2013 below.
  Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky, How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life, London: Penguin, 2012; New York: Other Press, 2012.
  [Publisher UK; Publisher USA; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
• Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky, "How Much Is Enough?" RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), London, 2012.
  (The RSA.)

2013

• Daniel Stedman Jones and (discussants) Mark Pennington, Robert Skidelsky, "Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics," London School of Economics, 16 January 2013.
  (Event webpage at LSE; Video webpage at LSE.)
  Daniel Stedman Jones, Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics, Princeton University Press, 2012, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert Skidelsky, Stephanie Flanders, Tarek El Diwany, Paul Sharma, Ann Pettifor, "Good Money Debate," the second debate in the series The City and the Common Good, St. Paul's Institute, London, 07 May 2013.
  (The City and the Common Good article on the Event Series at St. Paul's Institute;
  The City and the Common Good, April May June 2013, series report PDF;
  Good People Debate, 11 April 2013: the first debate in this series; Good People Seminar, 15 April 2013;
  Good Money Debate, 7 May 2013: the second debate in this series; Good Money Seminar, 5 June 2013;
  Good Banks Debate, 12 June 2013: the third debate in this series; Good Banks Seminar, 24 June 2013;
  St. Paul's Institute; CCLA.)
• Robert Skidelsky and (discussant) Maurice Glasman, "Work as a Value," London School of Economics, 29 October 2013.
  (Event webpage at LSE; Video webpage at LSE.)
  Keynes's essay "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" (1930) is included in his Essays in Persuasion (1931) [Norton edition 1963; Macmillan edition 2010] and you may find copies on the internet.
  Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky, How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life, London: Penguin, 2012; New York: Other Press, 2012.
  [Publisher UK; Publisher USA; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
• Robert Skidelsky, "The Experience of Austerity: The UK," Minsky Conference in Greece, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, 09 November 2013.
  (Conference Program.)

2014

• Robert Skidelsky, "The Future of Work," 12th International Post Keynesian Conference, University of Missouri, Kansas City, 27 September 2014.
  (Conference Schedule; Post Keynesian Conference YouTube playlist.)
• Robert Skidelsky, "Economics after the Crash: What Should Students be Taught?" 12th International Post Keynesian Conference, University of Missouri, Kansas City, 27 September 2014.
  The introduction to Skidelsky's talk begins at time 15:40.
• Robert Skidelsky, "Media and Society," School of Civic Education, Golitsyno, Russia, 13 December 2014.
  Skidelsky comments on the Valdai speech of Vladimir Putin 24 October 2014; Putin's Speech, video; Putin's Speech, text.
  Skidelsky's brief talk is followed by a question and answer session on Russian relations with the EU, UK, USA. This video is very interesting in showing Skidelsky explaining the West to a room full of Russians.

2015

• Robert Skidelsky, "Distribution as a Macro Economic Issue," FT Masterclass Lecture, Leeds University Business School, 06 May 2015.
  (Event webpage at Leeds University Business School.)
• Robert Skidelsky, "The Failure of Austerity," SPERI Annual Lecture, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, The University of Sheffield, 19 May 2015.
  (Event announcement at SPERI; Video webpage at SPERI.)
• Professor Lord Skidelsky, Unsettled Questions in Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Spring 2015.
  Lecture 1: The Anatomy of the Crisis
  Lecture 2: Monetary Policy
  Lecture 3: Fiscal Policy
  Lecture 4: What to do about the Banks?
  Lecture 5: Distribution as a Macroeconomic Problem
  Lecture 6: The Sources of Economics Ideas

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United Kingdom : Early 20th century.
• Edwardian era (1901-1914).
• History of the United Kingdom during World War I (1914-1918).
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• History of the United Kingdom : Interwar era (1918-1939).
• Great Depression in the United Kingdom.
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• History of the United Kingdom : Second World War.
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• Economic history of the United Kingdom : 1900-1945.
• Social history of England : 20th century.
• William Beveridge, Social Insurance and Allied Services, (commonly known as the Beveridge Report), 1942.
  Extract from The Beveridge Report, Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
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• History of the United Kingdom : Postwar.
• History of the United Kingdom (1945–present) (political narrative).
• Postwar Britain (1945-present).
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• Post–World War II economic expansion.
• Post-war consensus.
• Economic history of the United Kingdom : 1945 to 2001.
• Social history of England : Since 1945.
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• British Empire.
• Economy of the United Kingdom.
Component Nations of the United Kingdom:
• History of England : 20th and 21st centuries.
• History of Scotland : Early 20th century.
• History of Scotland : Postwar.
• Modern history of Wales.
• History of Northern Ireland.
• Ulster : History.
Prime Ministers:
• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury, (June 1895 – July 1902)
• Arthur Balfour (July 1902 – December 1905)
• Henry Campbell-Bannerman (December 1905 – April 1908)
• H. H. Asquith (April 1908 – December 1916)
• David Lloyd George (December 1916 – October 1922)
• Bonar Law (October 1922 – May 1923)
• Stanley Baldwin (May 1923 – January 1924)
• Ramsay MacDonald (January 1924 – November 1924)
• Stanley Baldwin (November 1924 – June 1929)
• Ramsay MacDonald (June 1929 – June 1935)
• Stanley Baldwin (June 1935 – May 1937)
• Neville Chamberlain (May 1937 – May 1940)
• Winston Churchill (May 1940 – July 1945)
• Clement Attlee (July 1945 - October 1951)
• Winston Churchill (October 1951 - April 1955)
• Anthony Eden (April 1955 - January 1957)
• Harold Macmillan (January 1957 - October 1963)
• Alec Douglas-Home (October 1963 - October 1964)
• Harold Wilson (October 1964 - June 1970)
• Edward Heath (June 1970 - March 1974)
• Harold Wilson (March 1974 - April 1976)
• James Callaghan (April 1976 - May 1979)
• Margaret Thatcher (May 1979 - November 1990)
• John Major (November 1990 – May 1997)
• Tony Blair (May 1997 – June 2007)
• Gordon Brown (June 2007 – May 2010)

Other books on Britain noted in this blog:

• Beckett, When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies (2009).
• Turner, Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s (2008).
• Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life (1957; 2009).
• Bronstein & Harris, Empire, State, and Society: Britain since 1830 (2012).
• Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1959; 2002).
• Danziger & Gillingham, 1215: The Year of Magna Carta (2003).
• Barlow, Thomas Becket (1990; 2002).

Beckett, When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies (2009)

Andy Beckett.
When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 2009.

The 2010 paperback edition has a modified subtitle: When the Lights Went Out: What Really Happened to Britain in the Seventies.

Book Information: Publisher, hardcover; Publisher, paperback; Google Books; Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk.

When the Lights Went Out was named to the 2010 Long List for the Orwell Prize.

Andy Beckett and Ben Wilson, Discussion on When the Lights Went Out, Faber & Faber, May 2009 : Part 1, Part 2.

Author Information:

• Andy Beckett at The Guardian.
• Andy Beckett at the London Review of Books.
• Andy Beckett is also the author of:
  Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chile’s Hidden History, London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 2002.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk.]
  and
  Promised You a Miracle: UK 80-82, London: Allen Lane, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk.]

Book Reviews:

• Ian Jack, "Downhill from Here," London Review of Books, 27 August 2009.
• Francis Wheen, "When Candlemakers Got Rich," Literary Review, May 2009.

Video:
Introductory Documentaries

• Dominic Sandbrook, The 70s, BBC Productions, 2012.
  Part 1: Get It On 70-72.
  Part 2: Doomwatch 73-74 (blocked in USA).
  Part 3: Goodbye Great Britain 75-77.
  Part 4: The Winner Takes It All 77-79.
  BBC Two "The 70s" series webpage.
  This series is a good general introduction, very introductory, to 1970s Britain with brief highlights of political, social, cultural and economic history.
  Episode 4 includes a discussion of Comprehensive Schools; for more on this topic see: "The Best Days?" Panorama, BBC, 1977.
  Sandbrook is the author of:
  • State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain 1970-1974, Allen Lane 2010, Penguin Books 2011.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk.]
  • Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979, Allen Lane 2012, Penguin Books 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk.]
• Dominic Sandbrook, Strange Days: Cold War Britain, BBC Productions, 2013.
  Episode 1: Red Dawn (copy 1; copy 2.)
  Episode 2: The Looking Glass War (blocked copy; copy 2; copy 3.)
  Episode 3: Two Tribes (copy 1; copy 2; copy 3.)


• Michael Cockerell, "The Lost World of the Seventies," BBC, 2012.
  Focuses on: Walter Walker; Frank Pakenham, Lord Longford; James Goldsmith; Robert Mark.
  Programme webpage at BBC Two.
  This program illuminates 1970s Britain through then-prominent individuals and the controversies in which they were entangled (right-wing coup planning against imagined communist subversion; pornography; asset-stripping corporate raiders, a symptom of economic decline; police corruption).


• Michael Cockerell, The Great Offices of State, BBC, 2010.
  Part 1: The Dark Department (Home Office).
  Part 2: Palace of Dreams (Foreign Office).
  Part 3: The Secret Treasury.
  Great Offices of State, Wikipedia.
  This series is not about the 1970s, although it does include some interviews with figures from the 1970s; it's inclusion here seems justified as it offers some insights into how the British government operates, then and now.


• Dominic Sandbrook, "The Way We Were: Britain at the Start of the Seventies," RSA, 23 September 2010.
  (Video webpage at the RSA.)


• Dominic Sandbrook, "Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979," Word on the Street, Sept 2013.

Political Parties

• "Tory! Tory! Tory!" Mentorn, BBC, 2006.
  Part 1: Outsiders (BBC episode info).
  Part 2: Path to Power (BBC episode info).
  Part 3: The Exercise of Power (BBC episode info).
  This series offers an excellent explanation of the politics of the period.
  Wikipedia article on Tory! Tory! Tory!.
• "The Night The Government Fell," BBC Parliament, 28 March 2009.
  Part 1: "A Parliamentary Coup".
  Part 2: "Tonight" episode from 28 March 1979.
  Part 3: George Cunningham.
  "The Night The Government Fell" 2009 BBC webpage with "A Parliamentary Coup" documentary and audio clips from the confidence debate.
  "The Night The Government Fell" 2009 BBC news article on programming scheduled to mark the 30th anniversary of the event.
  2004 BBC news article on a documentary produced in 2004 for the 25th anniversary of the event.
  1979 vote of no confidence in the government of James Callaghan, Wikipedia.
  Motions of no confidence in the United Kingdom, Wikipedia.
• "The Wilderness Years," BBC, 1995.
  Part 1: Cast into the Wilderness.
  Part 2: Comrades of War.
  Part 3: Enter the Rose.
  Part 4: The Pursuit of Power.
  (On the Labour Party after the 1970s.)

Vernon Bogdanor

• Vernon Bogdanor, "Britain in the 20th Century: The Collapse of the Postwar Settlement, 1964-1979," Gresham College, London, 13 March 2012.
  Lecture webpage at Gresham College; one in the "Britain in the 20th Century" series.
• Vernon Bogdanor, "The General Election, February 1974," Gresham College, London, 20 January 2015.
  Lecture webpage at Gresham College; one in the "Six General Elections" series.
  United Kingdom general election, February 1974, Wikipedia.
• Vernon Bogdanor, "The General Election, 1979," Gresham College, London, 10 March 2015.
  Lecture webpage at Gresham College; one in the "Six General Elections" series.
  The 1970s was a pivotal decade and 1979 was a pivotal year.
  United Kingdom general election, 1979, Wikipedia.
• Vernon Bogdanor, "Britain in the 20th Century: Thatcherism, 1979-1990," Gresham College, London, 24 April 2012.
  Lecture webpage at Gresham College; one in the "Britain in the 20th Century" series.
• Vernon Bogdanor, "Sir Keith Joseph and the Market Economy," Gresham College, London, 21 May 2013.
  Lecture webpage at Gresham College; one in the "Making the Weather: Six Politicians who shaped our age" series.
• Vernon Bogdanor, "The IMF Crisis, 1976," Gresham College, London, 19 January 2016.
  Lecture webpage at Gresham College; one in the "Political Crises Since 1945" series.

Biographies of Politicians

• Anthony Howard, "Harold Wilson: A Life," BBC, 1995.
• "The Plot Against Harold Wilson," BBC, 2006.
  (A mixture of Cold War paranoia, Tory distrust of the Labour government's subservience to the trade unions, and anxiety over Britain's weakened financial condition. These factors provided background to rumors of coup planning.)
• "Harold: The Wilson Years," Granada Television, ITV, 2006: Part 1; Part 2.
• Yesterday's Men, BBC, 1971.
  (On Harold Wilson's shadow cabinet after losing the 1970 general election.
  Yesterday's Men, Wikipedia.)
• "Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel," Telesgop, BBC, 2011.
  (Program webpage at BBC Four.)
• Michael Cockerell, "A Very Singular Man: A Film Portrait of Edward Heath," BBC, 1998.
  Rebroadcast under the modified title "Sir Ted: A Film Portrait of Edward Heath" in 2005.
• Michael Cockerell, "Labour's Last Premier: A Film Portrait of James Callaghan," BBC, 1992.
• Michael Cockerell, "Odd Man Out: A Film Portrait of Enoch Powell," BBC, 1995.
• Vernon Bogdanor, "Enoch Powell and the Sovereignty of Parliament," Gresham College, London, 12 March 2013.
  (Lecture webpage at Gresham College; one in the "Making the Weather: Six Politicians who shaped our age" series.)
• Michael Cockerell, "A Very Social Democrat: A Portrait of Roy Jenkins," BBC, 1996.
• Vernon Bogdanor, "Roy Jenkins, Europe and the Civilised Society," Gresham College, London, 15 January 2013.
  (Lecture webpage at Gresham College; one in the "Making the Weather: Six Politicians who shaped our age" series.)
• Michael Cockerell, "Labour's Old Romantic: A Film Portrait of Michael Foot," BBC, 1997.
• Tony Benn and Anthony Clare, "In the Psychiatrist's Chair," BBC Radio 4, 13 August 1995.
• "Westminster: Behind Closed Doors with Tony Benn," Parliamentary Films, BBC, 1995.
• Vernon Bogdanor, "Tony Benn and the Idea of Participation," Gresham College, London, 16 April 2013.
  (Lecture webpage at Gresham College; one in the "Making the Weather: Six Politicians who shaped our age" series.)
• "Tony Benn: Labour's Lost Leader," BBC Productions, 2014.

Miscellaneous 1970s

• "Ted Heath Election Broadcast 1974."
• Jim Callaghan Press Conference 1979.
  (This is the famous moment from which The Sun newspaper created the headline 'Crisis, What Crisis?')
• "Crisis? What Crisis?," Conservative Party, April 1979.
  (A political broadcast by the UK Conservative Party before the 1979 General Election.)
• "Thatcher Election Broadcast 1979," Conservative Party, April 1979.
• "Conservative Party Political Broadcast," Not the Nine O'Clock News, 1980?.
• Robin Day, "Politics in the 70s," BBC Radio 4:
  Part 1 of 6: Michael Foot and Enoch Powell, 10 June 1973.
  Part 6 of 6: Reginald Maudling, Roy Jenkins, Enoch Powell and Michael Foot, 15 July 1973.
• "Electric Dreams: The 1970s," BBC, 2010.
  (A family lives in a 1970s style home with very occasional notes of 1970s British history; the series focuses on consumer technology and family life.)
• Tom Baker, "Shameful Secrets of the 1970s," Granada and British Sky Broadcasting, 2005.
  (A celebration of folly and bad taste in popular culture.)
• The Queen's Diamond Decades - The 1970s, HTI, 2012.
  (A view of the 1970s in Britain different from the other videos listed here.)
• "Strikes and Blackouts," Till Death Us Do Part, Series 5, Episode 3, 23 January 1974.
• "Three Day Week," Till Death Us Do Part, Series 5, Episode 4, 30 January 1974.

1960s

• Dominic Sandbrook, "The Lost World of 1962," Gresham College, 05 July 2012.
  (Lecture webpage at Gresham College.)
• The 60s: The Beatles Decade, UKTV History, 2006.
  Episode 1: "Teenage Rebels: 1960-1962" (copy 1, copy 2)
  Episode 2: "Sex, Spies and Rock and Roll: 1962-1964" (copy 1, copy 2)
  Episode 3: "Swinging Britain: 1965-1966" (copy 1, copy 2)
  Episode 4: "Street Fighting Years: 1967-1968" (copy 1, copy 2)
  Episode 5: "The Party's Over: 1969 - 1970" (copy 1, copy 2)
• Harold Wilson, "Labour's Plan for Science," Speech at the Annual Conference, Scarborough, 1963. [PDF]
  • David Edgerton, "The 'White Heat' Revisited: The British Government and Technology in the 1960s," Twentieth Century British History, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1996, pages 53-82. [PDF]
  • White Heat Conference, Centre for British Politics, The University of Nottingham, 05 July 2013. [Conference Report PDF.]
  • Steven Fielding and Colin Smith, "Wilson's White Heat," People's History Museum, Manchester, 01 October 2013.
    Event webpage at the People's History Museum.
    Article about this event in The Guardian.
  • Theo Blackwell, "'White heat' 50 years on: What lessons can we learn from the 'white heat of technology' speech 50 years on?," Progress, 01 October 2013.
• "Why I Hate the Sixties," BBC, 2004.
  (British social and cultural conservatives discuss the prelude to the 1970s.)

Economic History

• Roderick Floud and others, "The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain," Gresham College, London, 24 September 2014.
  (Event webpage at Gresham College.)
  See the talk by Nicholas Crafts starting after minute 46 for an economic historian's discussion of British economic growth during the post-war period. This is of course important for understanding and explaining British politics of the 1970s and after.
• Jeff Madrick, "Decline of America," Cooper Union, 02 June 2011.
  This talk is a review of economic history since the 1970s mostly focused on the USA.
  Jeff Madrick, Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present, New York: Knopf, 2011.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• 1970s.
• Years in the United Kingdom : 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980.
  
• Postwar Britain (1945-present).
• Post–World War II economic expansion.
• Post-war consensus.
• Economic history of the United Kingdom : 1945 to 2001.
• Economic history of the United Kingdom : 1960–1979: the Sixties and Seventies.
• Barbara Castle, "In Place of Strife: A Policy for Industrial Relations," London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1969.
• Nixon Shock (1971).
• Smithsonian Agreement (December 1971).
• 1973 oil crisis.
• 1979 oil crisis.
• 1970s energy crisis.
• 1973–75 recession.
• The Great Inflation (1970s).
• UK miners' strike (1972).
• Three-Day Week (January-March, 1974).
• Thames Estuary Airport, Maplin site planning abandoned 1974.
• Grunwick dispute (1976-1978).
  George Ward, The Daily Telegraph, 24 April 2012.
• Winter of Discontent (1978-1979).
• Labour Isn't Working, 1979 Conservative advertising campaign.
• United Kingdom general election, 1970.
• United Kingdom general election, February 1974.
• United Kingdom general election, October 1974.
• United Kingdom general election, 1979.
• Newly industrialized country.
• Post-industrial society.
• Deindustrialization.
• Deindustrialisation by country : United Kingdom.
• Economy of the United Kingdom.
Prime Ministers:
• Clement Attlee (July 1945 - October 1951)
• Winston Churchill (October 1951 - April 1955)
• Anthony Eden (April 1955 - January 1957)
• Harold Macmillan (January 1957 - October 1963)
• Alec Douglas-Home (October 1963 - October 1964)
• Harold Wilson (October 1964 - June 1970)
• Edward Heath (June 1970 - March 1974)
• Harold Wilson (March 1974 - April 1976)
• James Callaghan (April 1976 - May 1979)
• Margaret Thatcher (May 1979 - November 1990)
Labour MPs:
• Aneurin "Nye" Bevan (1897-1960).
• Hugh Gaitskell (1906-1963).
• Barbara Castle (1910-2002).
• Michael Foot (1913-2010).
• Anthony Crosland (1917-1977).
• Denis Healey (1917-2015).
• Roy Jenkins (1920-2003).
• Tony Benn (1925-2014).
• Shirley Williams (1930-).
• David Owen (1938-).
• Roy Hattersley (1932-).
Conservative MPs and Ministers:
• Enoch Powell (1912-1998).
• Reginald Maudling (1917-1979).
• Keith Joseph (1918-1994).
• William Whitelaw (1918-1999).
• Lord Carington (1919-).
• Anthony Barber (1920-2005).
• Francis Pym (1922-2008).
• Geoffrey Howe (1926-2015).
• Jim Prior (1927-).
• Douglas Hurd (1930-).
• Cecil Parkinson (1931-).
• Norman Tebbit (1931-).
• Peter Walker (1932-2010).
• Nigel Lawson (1932-).
• John Nott (1932-).
• Michael Heseltine (1933-).
• John Gummer (1939-).
• Kenneth Clarke (1940-).
Liberal MPs:
• Jeremy Thorpe (1929-2014).
• David Steel (1938-).
Other Political Activists:
• Mary Whitehouse (1910-2001).
• Arthur Seldon (1916-2005).
• John Hoskyns (1917-2014).
• Alfred Sherman (1919-2006).
• Ralph Harris (1924-2006).
• Marcia Williams (1932-).
• Bernard Donoughue (1934-).
• John Gouriet (1935-2010).
Trade Unions:
• TUC - Trades Union Congress.
• NUM - National Union of Mineworkers.
• TGWU - Transport and General Workers' Union.
• APEX - Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff.
Trade Union Leaders:
• Jack Jones (1913-2009).
• Arthur Scargill (1938-).

Other books on the 1970s noted in this blog:

• Turner, Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s (2008).
• Wheen, Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Days of Paranoia (2010).
• Stein, Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies (2010).
• Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (1996).
• Ferguson, Maier, et al. editors, The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (2010).
• Ferguson & Rogers, Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics (1986).

Eichengreen, Exorbitant Privilege (2011)

Barry Eichengreen.
Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Author Information:

• Barry Eichengreen, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley.
• Barry Eichengreen - What's New (papers, books, etc).
• Barry Eichengreen, Wikipedia.
• Berkeley Economic History Laboratory.
• Barry Eichengreen, Project Syndicate.

Video:

• Barry Eichengreen and Harry Kreisler, Historical Perspective on the Global Economic Crisis, Conversations with History, University of California, Berkeley, 22 January 2009.
  (Event webpage at the Conversations with History website.)
• Barry Eichengreen and Harry Kreisler, The Rise and Fall of the Dollar, Conversations with History, University of California, Berkeley, 04 January 2011.
  (Event webpage at the Conversations with History website.)
  This video may be the best introduction to Eichengreen's book and topics among the videos listed here.
• Barry Eichengreen, Exorbitant Privilege: Rise, Fall and Future of the Dollar, Carnegie Council, New York, 13 January 2011.
  (Event webpage at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs; includes transcript and audio.)
• Barry Eichengreen, Exorbitant Privilege, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 07 February 2011.
  Discussants: Harold James; Hyun S. Shin; G. John Ikenberry.
  (Event webpage at the Woodrow Wilson School.)
• Barry Eichengreen, The Dollar, the Crisis, and the Future of the International Monetary System, Duke University, 25 February 2011.
  (Event announcement at the Center for International Studies, John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, Duke University.)
• Barry Eichengreen, The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 14 March 2011.
  (Event webpage at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.)
• Barry Eichengreen, Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar, London School of Economics, 22 March 2011.
  (Event webpage at LSE.)
• Barry Eichengreen, The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System, The UCSD Economics Roundtable, University of California, San Diego, 22 April 2011.
  (Broadcast webpage UCSD-TV; 2011 Archive for The UCSD Economics Roundtable.)
• Barry Eichengreen, Europe's Never Ending Crisis, University of Oregon, 17 November 2011.
  (Event announcement at the University of Oregon; Video at The University of Oregon Media Channel.)
• Gerald Friedman, Econ 397GR Great Recession Lectures, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 2012.
• Steve Keen, Why the global economy is stagnating, UK Chartered Financial Advisors Society, May 2015.
• Steve Keen, Will We Crash Again?, FT/Alphaville, July 2015.

Eichengreen published a more detailed book on the history of the international monetary system a few years before Exorbitant Privilege. It is:
Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System, second edition, Princeton University Press, 2008.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Exorbitant Privilege has a less technical review of this history (chapters 1-4) followed by chapters on the 2007-2008 financial crisis, recent developments in other currencies that could become alternatives to the dollar, and prospects for the future (chapters 5-7).

The final two paragraphs of Exorbitant Privilege:

The point is that it is not the exchange rate or the net foreign investment position as much as the fundamental underlying health of the economy that matters for geopolitical leverage. If one wants a single unified explanation for the behavior of the exchange rate and the net foreign investment position, it would again be the fundamental underlying health of the economy. Whether the dollar rises or falls by 30 percent will matter much less for U.S. strategic influence than whether U.S. economic growth averages 2 or 4 percent per annum over the next decade.

Again, there is a more alarming scenario: instead of the dollar declining gradually to somewhat lower levels, there is a dollar crash. In this case all bets are off. Here it is important to remember that the only plausible scenario for a dollar crash is one in which we bring it upon ourselves. This also means that it is within our grasp to avoid the worst. The good news, such as it is, is that the fate of the dollar is in our hands, not those of the Chinese. (page 177)

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• International monetary systems.
• Reserve currency.
• World currency.
• Currency.
• Foreign exchange market.
• Floating exchange rate
• List of countries by exchange rate regime.
• History of money.
• History of the United States dollar.
• Gold standard.
• Seigniorage.
• Banker's acceptance.
• Pound sterling.
• Panic of 1907.
• Federal Reserve System.
• Wall Street Crash of 1929.
• Great Depression of the 1930s.
• Causes of the Great Depression.
• Balance sheet recession.
• Bretton Woods system.
• Triffin dilemma.
• Marshall Plan.
• Dodge Plan.
• Post–World War II economic expansion.
• Nixon Shock (1971).
• Smithsonian Agreement (December 1971).
• 1973 oil crisis.
• 1970s energy crisis.
• 1973–75 recession.
• The Great Inflation (1970s).
• Economic history of the United Kingdom : 1960–1979: the Sixties and Seventies.
• Economic history of the United States : Inflation woes: 1970s.
• Snake in the tunnel (early 1970s).
• European Monetary System.
• European Exchange Rate Mechanism (1979-1999).
• Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union.
• Maastricht Treaty (1992).
• History of the Euro.
• Optimum currency area.
• 1997 Asian financial crisis.
• Financial crisis of 2007–08.
• Great Recession.
• Causes of the Great Recession.
• Renminbi.
• Internationalization of the renminbi.
• Economy of China.

Some Notable People:

• J. P. Morgan (1837-1913).
• Nelson Aldrich (1841-1915).
• Frank Vanderlip (1864-1937).
• Henry Davison (1867-1922).
• Paul Warburg (1868-1932).
• Montagu Norman (1871-1950).
• Benjamin Strong (1872-1928).
• Abram Piatt Andrew, Jr. (1873-1936).
• John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946).
• George Marshall (1880-1959).
• Joseph Dodge (1890-1964).
• Harry Dexter White (1892-1948).
• Arthur F. Burns (1904-1987).
• Robert Triffin (1911-1993).
• G. William Miller (1925-2006).
• Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926-).
• Paul Volcker (1927-).
• Jacques Delors (1925-).
• Robert Mundell (1932-).

Brands, Greenback Planet (2011)

H. W. Brands.
Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It.
Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2011.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Author Information:

• Henry W. Brands, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.
• H. W. Brands, Wikipedia.
• h. w. brands, his website.

Video:

• H. W. Brands and David Graeber, Panel on American Debt, Texas Book Festival, Book TV, C-SPAN, 22 October 2011.

Book Reviews:

• James Grant, How the Dollar Rules by Fiat, The Wall Street Journal, 28 November 2011.

Brands, The Money Men (2006)

H. W. Brands.
The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War over the American Dollar.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Author Information:

• Henry W. Brands, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.
• H. W. Brands, Wikipedia.
• h. w. brands, his website.

Video:

• H. W. Brands, Book Discussion on The Money Men, Texas Book Festival, Book TV, C-SPAN, 29 October 2006.

The "Money Men" discussed in the book are:

• Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757-1804).
• Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844).
• Jay Cooke (1821-1905).
• Jay Gould (1836-1892).
• J. P. Morgan (1837-1913).

See The Works of Alexander Hamilton, Volume 3 (1850) for Hamilton's reports on "Public Credit" (pages 1-46), on a "National Bank" (pages 106-146), "On The Establishment of a Mint" (pages 149-188), and on "Manufactures" (pages 192-284).

Beatty, Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 (2007)

Jack Beatty.
Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Random House, Inc., 2007.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Author information:

• Jack Beatty, Wikipedia.
• Jack Beatty, The Atlantic.
• Beatty edited the related book: Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America, New York: Broadway Books / Crown, 2001. (Google Books; Amazon.com.)

Video:

• Jack Beatty - Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900, The Concord Bookshop, YouTube, 29 April 2007.
• Jack Beatty, Book Discussion on Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America, University of Massachusetts - Boston, Book TV, C-SPAN, 06 September 2001.
• Jack Beatty and others, The President and the Press, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities event at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, Book TV, C-SPAN, 20 November 2004.
• Jack Beatty, Growing Up In Boston In The 1950s, David Hoffman, YouTube.
• Jack Beatty and Lawrence R. Velvel, Books of Our Time, Massachusetts School of Law, Excerpt 1, Excerpt 2, day? month? 2007.

Other books on this period noted in this blog:

• Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 (2010).
  This post has many links for this period.
• White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011).
  This post has many links specific to the railroads; given their central position during this period to the U.S. economy and economic development, one shouldn't think of railroads as a marginal issue.
• Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (1967).
• Stampp, The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (1967).
• Brands, The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (1995; 2002).
• Fusfeld, The Rise & Repression of Radical Labor in the United States 1877-1918 (1980; 1992).
• Diner, A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (1998).
• Jacoby, The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought (2013).

Jacoby, The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought (2013)

Susan Jacoby.
The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought.
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2013.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Links:

• Susan Jacoby, her promotional website.
• Susan Jacoby, Wikipedia.
• Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899), Wikipedia.

Selected Works of Ingersoll:

• Abraham Lincoln, A Lecture.
• Shakespeare, A Lecture.
• Voltaire, A Lecture.
• Testimonial to Walt Whitman.
• The Great Infidels, A Lecture.

The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll:

• Volume 1, Lectures.
• Volume 2, Lectures.
• Volume 3, Lectures.
• Volume 4, Lectures.
• Volume 5, Discussions.
• Volume 6, Discussions.
• Volume 7, Discussions.
• Volume 8, Interviews.
• Volume 9, Political.
• Volume 10, Legal.
• Volume 11, Miscellany.
• Volume 12, Tributes and Miscellany.
• Volume 12, Miscellany.
• Volume 13, A Biographical Appreciation by Herman E. Kittredge.

White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011)

Richard White.
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Railroaded, book webpage at The Spatial History Project, Stanford University.

Author Information:

• Richard White, Department of History, Stanford University.
• Richard White, The Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University.
• Richard White, Wikipedia.

Video and Audio

• Richard White, Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC, Southern Spaces, 19 March 2009.
• Richard White and David Kennedy, Myths About the Transcontinental Railroad and the Building of the American West, The Commonwealth Club of California, 08 June 2011.
• Richard White and Lewis Lapham, "Working on the Railroad," The World In Time podcast, Lapham's Quarterly, 01 July 2011.
• Richard White, Transcontinental Railroads and the Environmental Consequences of Premature Development, The Forest History Society, 2012.
• Transcontinental Railroad, American Experience, WGBH, PBS, 2003 (YouTube video).
• End of Track, Wyoming PBS, 2013 (focuses on the first transcontinental railroad in what became Wyoming).

Major Events:

• First Transcontinental Railroad (completed 1869).
• Crédit Mobilier of America scandal (1872; Crédit Mobilier was a scheme for siphoning off money from the construction of the Union Pacific).
• Panic of 1873 (initiated by the collapse of Jay Cooke's Northern Pacific).
• Long Depression of 1873-1879.
• Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
  This event is not discussed in Railroaded, perhaps because it mainly involved eastern railroads. During this period wages were still higher in the west than in the east and perhaps western wages were more resistant to wage cuts; wage cuts in the east precipitated the strike.
• Panic of 1893.
• Pullman Strike (1894).

Transcontinental Railroads and Key People:

• Union Pacific Railroad.
  Thomas C. Durant (1820-1885).
  Oakes Ames (1804-1873).
  Grenville M. Dodge (1831-1916).
  Jay Gould (1836-1892).
  Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1835-1915).
  Sidney Dillon (1812-1892).
  E. H. Harriman (1848-1909).
• Central Pacific Railroad.
  The Associates or Big Four.
  Leland Stanford (1824-1893).
  Collis P. Huntington (1821-1900).
  Charles Crocker (1822-1888).
  Mark Hopkins, Jr. (1813-1878).
  Edwin B. Crocker (1818-1875).
• Southern Pacific Railroad.
  Stanford, Huntington, Crocker & Hopkins.
• Northern Pacific Railway.
  Jay Cooke (1821-1905).
  Henry Villard (1835-1900).
• Great Northern Railway.
  James J. Hill (1838-1916).
• Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.
• Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
  Cyrus K. Holliday (1826-1900).
• Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
  Charles Elliott Perkins (1840-1907).
• Texas and Pacific Railway.
  Thomas A. Scott (1823-1881).
  Jay Gould (1836-1892).
• Kansas Pacific Railway.
• Canadian Pacific Railway.
• Mexican Central Railway.
• Mexican National Railway.

Some Old Books on Railroads:

• Charles Francis Adams Jr. and Henry Adams. Chapters of Erie, and Other Essays. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. (Google Books.)
• Charles Francis Adams Jr. Railroads, Their Origin and Problems. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878, 1886. (Google Books.)
• Arthur Twining Hadley. Railroad Transportation: Its History and Its Laws. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885. (Google Books.)
• James F. Hudson. Railways and the Republic. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1886. (Google Books.)
• William John Pinkerton. His Personal Record: Stories of Railroad Life. Kansas City, Mo.: The Pinkerton Publishing Co., 1904. (Google Books.) This book is discussed by White in Railroaded.
• Arthur M. Wellington. The Economic Theory of the Location of Railroads, Sixth Edition. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1887. (Google Books, 1901; Google Books, 1910.) This book is discussed by White in Railroaded.
• Emory R. Johnson. American Railway Transportation. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903. (Google Books.)
• Walter Loring Webb. The Economics of Railroad Construction. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1906. (Google Books.)
• Walter Loring Webb. Railroad Engineering. Chicago: American School of Correspondence, 1909. (Google Books.)
• William G. Raymond. The Elements of Railroad Engineering. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1909. (Google Books.)
• Thomas F. Woodlock. The Anatomy of a Railroad Report. London: Effingham, Wilson & Co., 1895; New York: United States Book Company, 1895. (Google Books.)
• John Moody. How to Analyze Railroad Reports. New York: Analyses Publishing Co., 1912. (Google Books.)
• A.M. Sakolski. American Railroad Economics. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. (Google Books.)
• Henry C. Adams. American Railway Accounting: A Commentary. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918. (Google Books.)

Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 (2010)

H.W. Brands.
American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900.
New York: Doubleday, 2010; New York: Anchor Books, 2011 (imprints of Penguin Random House).

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Author Information:

• Henry W. Brands, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.
• h. w. brands, his website.
• H. W. Brands, Wikipedia.

Video: H.W. Brands

• Book Discussion on American Colossus, Pritzker Military Museum & Library, Chicago, Illinois, Book TV, C-SPAN, 04 November 2010.
• HW Brands - American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900, Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 08 April 2011. (Hauenstein Center webpage for Brands's talk.)
• H. W. Brands, "How the Rich Got Rich: The Gilded Age in America," Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Texas, 05 June 2011.
• H. W. Brands, T.J. Stiles and James McGrath Morris, "Age of Titans Panel," Texas Book Festival, Book TV, C-SPAN, 16 October 2010.

Video: Miscellaneous

• Rocky Collins, director, "Insanity on Trial," American Experience, PBS, 1990.
  IMDb information.
  Posted on YouTube by David Hoffman with the title "Guiteau Killed President Garfield."
  This documentary provides a picture of U.S. politics and society in 1880-81.
• Candice Millard, "James A. Garfield," The Kansas City Public Library, 16 May 2012.
  
  • Candice Millard, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, New York: Doubleday (Random House) 2011.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Murder of a President, American Experience, 2016.
  On James A. Garfield (1831–1881).
  Copy at YouTube.

Historical Surveys:

• Reconstruction Era (1865-1877).
• Gilded Age (1860s-1900s).
• Progressive Era (1880s-1910s).
• History of the United States (1865–1918).
• Second Industrial Revolution.
• Economic history of the United States : Late 19th century.
• American Indian Wars.
• Labor history of the United States : Organized labor to 1900.
• History of agriculture in the United States : Railroad Age: 1860–1910.

Major Events:

• First Transcontinental Railroad (completed 1869).
• Erie War (for control of the Erie Railroad, 1860s-1870s).
• Black Friday (1869) gold market and financial crashes.
• Crédit Mobilier of America scandal (1872).
• Panic of 1873.
• Long Depression of 1873-1879.
• The Great Deflation of the 1870s-1890s.
• Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia (1876).
• Compromise of 1877.
• Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
• Haymarket Riot/Massacre/Affair (1886).
• Homestead Strike (1892).
• Panic of 1893.
• Chicago World's Fair (1893; official title: World's Columbian Exposition).
• Pullman Strike (1894).
• Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York (1901).

Businessmen active during the second half of the 19th Century:
Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877).
J. P. Morgan (1837-1913).
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937).
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919).
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Daniel Drew (1797-1879).
Ezra Cornell (1807-1874).
Thomas C. Durant (1820-1885).
Jay Cooke (1821-1905).
Collis P. Huntington (1821-1900).
Thomas A. Scott (1823-1881).
Leland Stanford (1824-1893).
Joseph Wharton (1826-1909).
Henry Flagler (1830-1913).
Henry Villard (1835-1900).
Jim Fisk, Jr. (1835-1872).
Jay Gould (1836-1892).
Theodore Vail (1845-1920).
E. H. Harriman (1848-1909).
Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919).
Charles M. Schwab (1862-1939).

Corporations established or active during the second half of the 19th Century:
Standard Oil Company.
Carnegie Steel Company.
Bethlehem Steel.
New York Central Railroad.
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Erie Railroad.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Union Pacific Railroad.
Central Pacific Railroad.
Western Union.
Bell Telephone Company.
Western Electric Company.
Sears, Roebuck & Company.
American Tobacco Company.
National Linseed Oil Trust.
Westinghouse Electric Company.
General Electric Company.
American Sugar Refining Company.
United States Rubber Company.
North American Company.
Wells Fargo & Company.
JP Morgan & Company.

U.S. Presidents: Andrew Johnson (1865-1869); Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877); Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881); James A. Garfield (1881); Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885); Grover Cleveland (1885-1889, 1893-1897); Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893); William McKinley (1897-1901).

Other Politicians:
Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873).
Samuel J. Tilden (1814-1886).
"Boss" Tweed (1823-1878).
Roscoe Conkling (1829-1888).
James G. Blaine (1830-1893).
Mark Hanna (1837-1904).
John Peter Altgeld (1847-1902).
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925).

Political Groups, Movements, Ideologies:
Third Party System (1854-1896).
Fourth Party System (1896-1932).
Democratic Party.
Republican Party.
Stalwarts (Republican Party faction).
Half-Breeds (Republican Party faction).
Mugwumps (Republican Party faction).
Bourbon Democrats (Democratic Party faction).
Redeemers (southern Democratic Party faction).
Tammany Hall (New York City Democratic Party faction).
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Progressivism in the United States.
The Grange.
Farmers' Alliance.
Populists.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
National American Woman Suffrage Association.
American Anti-Imperialist League (1898-1920).
Free silver.
Georgism.

Political Activists, Labor Leaders:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902).
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895).
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906).
Frances Willard (1839-1898).
Samuel Gompers (1850-1924).
Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926).
Jane Addams (1860-1935);
Bill Haywood (1869-1928).
Emma Goldman (1869-1940).

Engineers, Scientists, and Others:
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904).
John Wesley Powell (1834-1902).
George Westinghouse (1846-1914).
Thomas Edison (1847-1931).
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922).
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943).

Economics and Political Economy:

• Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1835-1915) author of Railroads, Their Origin and Problems (1878) (Google Books) and, with his brother Henry Adams, Chapters of Erie, and Other Essays (1871) (Google Books).
• John Hay (1838-1905) author of The Bread-Winners: A Social Study (1883) (Google Books).
• Henry George (1839-1897) author of Progress and Poverty (1879) (Google Books; Archive.org Audio).
• Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903) author of Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894) (Google Books; Archive.org).
• Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) author of Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (1888) (Google Books; Project Gutenberg; Archive.org).
• William Hope Harvey (1851-1936) author of Coin's Financial School (1894) (Google Books).
• Ida Tarbell (1857-1944) author of The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904) (Volume 1, Google Books; Volume 2, Google Books) and The Tariff in Our Times (1911) (Google Books).
• Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929).

Professors, Other Intellectuals:
Francis Parkman (1823-1893).
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899).
Henry Adams (1838-1918).
William Graham Sumner (1840-1910).
Louis Brandeis (1856-1941).
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915).
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963).

Journalists:
Horace Greeley (1811-1872).
Charles Anderson Dana (1819-1897).
Thomas Nast (1840-1902).
Ambrose Bierce (1842-c.1914).
Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911).
Jacob Riis (1849-1914).
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931).
William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951).
Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936).
William Allen White (1868-1944).
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List of 19th-century American journalists.

Literature, Art:
Herman Melville (1819-1891).
Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888).
Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899).
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903).
Mark Twain (1835-1910).
William Dean Howells (1837-1920).
Henry James (1843-1916).
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916).
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926).
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909).
Kate Chopin (1850-1904).
Edith Wharton (1862-1937).
Frank Norris (1870-1902).
Stephen Crane (1871-1900).
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945).
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List of 19th-century American novelists.
List of 19th-century American poets.

Legislation, Court Decisions, Constitutional Amendments:
Revenue Act of 1861.
Revenue Act of 1862.
Revenue Act of 1864.
Homestead Act of 1862.
Pacific Railroad Acts (1862-1866).
Morrill Land-Grant Acts (1862, 1890).
Comstock laws (1873).
Coinage Act of 1873.
Civil Rights Act of 1875.
Black Codes and Jim Crow laws (1865-1965).
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Dawes Act of 1887.
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
Tariff Act of 1890 (McKinley Tariff).
Gold Standard Act of 1900.
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Slaughter-House Cases, 1873.
Springer v. United States, 1881.
Civil Rights Cases, 1883.
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co., 1886.
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896.
Muller v. Oregon, 1908.
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, 1911.
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Reconstruction Amendments (XIII, XIV, XV).
Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1865).
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1868).
Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1870).
Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1913).

Other books on U.S. History, late Nineteenth Century, noted in this blog:

• Brands, The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (1995; 2002).
• Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (1967).
• Beatty, Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 (2007).
• White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011).
• Fusfeld, The Rise & Repression of Radical Labor in the United States 1877-1918 (1980; 1992).
• Diner, A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (1998).
• Stampp, The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (1967).

Diner, A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (1998)

Steven J. Diner.
A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era.
New York: Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Links:

• Steven J. Diner, Rutgers University, Newark.
• Steven J. Diner, Have You Met Rutgers-Newark?
• Gilded Age, Wikipedia.
• Progressive Era, Wikipedia.
• Second Industrial Revolution, Wikipedia.
• Economic history of the United States: Late 19th century, Early 20th century, Wikipedia.

This book is very much a labor history of the period it covers, roughly 1890-1920. This is not made explicit in the book's title but one might glean it from the chapter titles. Most chapters focus on the labor history of particular occupational or social groups: industrial workers; immigrants; farmers and other rural people; African Americans; white collar workers; professionals. When discussing a group's difficult working conditions the author frequently vaguely attributes it to capitalism and goes no further. This is not a work of business history or economic history; also, it is not a history of the progressive movement, though the topic arises occasionally, especially in the penultimate chapter.