1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463616403321

Autore

Elena Eduardo <1972->

Titolo

Dignifying Argentina : Peronism, citizenship, and mass consumption / / Eduardo Elena

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0-8229-7738-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Pitt Latin American Series

Disciplina

982.06

Soggetti

Peronism - Economic aspects

Consumption (Economics) - Argentina - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Argentina Economic policy

Argentina Economic conditions 1945-1983

Argentina Politics and government 1943-1955

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Peronism and the midcentury moment -- An imperfect abundance -- Standards for a new Argentina -- The war on speculation -- Needs, wants, and comforts -- Parables of prodigality -- The counterpolitics of voice -- Ironies of adjustment -- The dignified life and beyond.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453459403321

Autore

Jackson Kenneth T

Titolo

Crabgrass Frontier [[electronic resource] ] : The Suburbanization of the United States

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford University Press, USA, 1985

ISBN

0-19-976314-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Disciplina

307.740973

Soggetti

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Communities - Urban Groups

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. Suburbs As Slums; 2. The Transportation Revolution and the Erosion of the Walking City; 3. Home, Sweet Home: The House and the Yard; 4. Romantic Suburbs; 5. The Main Line: Elite Suburbs and Commuter Railroads; 6. The Time of the Trolley; 7. Affordable Homes for the Common Man; 8. Suburbs into Neighborhoods: The Rise and Fall of Municipal Annexation; 9. The New Age of Automobility; 10. Suburban Development Between the Wars; 11. Federal Subsidy and the Suburban Dream: How Washington Changed the American Housing Market

12. The Cost of Good Intentions: The Ghettoization of Public Housing in the United States13. The Baby Boom and the Age of the Subdivision; 14. The Drive-in Culture of Contemporary America; 15. The Loss of Community in Metropolitan America; 16. Retrospect and Prospect; Appendix; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how ""the good life"" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the



availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. He treats communities in every section of t