Age of fracture / Daniel T. Rodgers

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789805203321
• Autore: Rodgers Daniel T
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 9780674059528; 0-674-05952-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.91
• Soggetti: Culture conflict - United States - History - 20th century; Politics and culture - United States - History - 20th century; Individualism - United States - History - 20th century; Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century; Political culture - United States - History - 20th century; United States Civilization 1970-; United States Social conditions 1960-1980; United States Social conditions 1980-2020; United States Economic conditions 1971-1981; United States Economic conditions 1981-2001; United States Intellectual life 20th century
• 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: Losing the words of the Cold War -- The rediscovery of the market -- The search for power -- Race and social memory -- Gender and certainty -- The little platoons of society -- Wrinkles in time.
• Sommario/riassunto: Rodgers presents the first broadly gauged history of the ideas and arguments that profoundly reshaped America in the last quarter of the twentieth century. From the ways in which Ronald Reagan changed the formulas of the Cold War presidency to the era’s intense debates over gender, race, economics, and history, it maps the dynamics through which mid-twentieth-century ideas of structure fell apart between the mid 1970s and the end of the century. Where conventional histories of modern America have focused on specific decades, the book traces the larger transformations in social ideas and visions that reshaped the era ; from the early 1970s through the end of the century.