A Consumers' Republic
The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
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In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life. Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the American Dream.
Material goods came to embody the promise of America, and the power of consumers to purchase everything from vacuum cleaners to convertibles gave rise to the power of citizens to purchase political influence and effect social change. Yet despite undeniable successes and unprecedented affluence, mass consumption also fostered economic inequality and the fracturing of society along gender, class, and racial lines. In charting the complex legacy of our "Consumers' Republic", Lizabeth Cohen has written a bold, encompassing, and profoundly influential book.
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Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that urban decline is the product of the social programs and racial fissures of the 1960s.
De: Thomas J. Sugrue
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The Cold War
- A World History
- De: Odd Arne Westad
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 22 h y 44 m
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In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe. We traditionally think of the Cold War as a post-World War II diplomatic and military conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Westad argues that the conflict must be understood as a global ideological confrontation with roots in the industrial revolution and with continuing implications for the world today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A lenghy treatise on the Cold War
- De Donald Hill en 11-21-17
De: Odd Arne Westad
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The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy
- Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower
- De: Michael Mandelbaum
- Narrado por: Lyle Blaker
- Duración: 18 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 9
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In The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy, Michael Mandelbaum offers a new framework for understanding the evolution of the foreign policy of the United States. He divides that evolution into four distinct periods, with each defined by the consistent increase in American power relative to other countries. His history of the four periods features engaging accounts of the major events and important personalities in the foreign policy of each era.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Expectations are everything
- De Patristics Guy en 08-07-23
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War! What Is It Good For?
- Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots
- De: Ian Morris
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 16 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer. In War! What Is It Good For?, the renowned historian and archaeologist Ian Morris tells the gruesome, gripping story of 15,000 years of war, going beyond the battles and brutality to reveal what war has really done to and for the world. War, and war alone, has created bigger, more complex societies, ruled by governments that have stamped out internal violence.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not What I Expected At All!!!
- De Leonard en 12-12-14
De: Ian Morris
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