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200 10$aDebating the end of history$b[electronic resource] $ethe marketplace, utopia, and the fragmentation of intellectual life /$fDavid W. Noble ; foreword by  David R. Roediger
210   $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2012
215   $a1 online resource (221 p.)
225 1 $aCritical American studies series
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-8166-8058-2 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aTwo-world metaphors, from Plato to Alan Greenspan -- Historians against history -- Economists discover a new New World -- Literary critics become cultural critics -- Ecologists on why history will never end -- When prophecy fails.
330   $aWhy do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because, David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism, such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as long as the capitalist marketplace is expanding. For Noble, the related-and relevant-question is, how can the middle classes believe that a finite earth is an environment in which infinite growth is possible? The answer, which Noble so painstakingly charts, is nothing less than a genealogy of th
410  0$aCritical American studies series.
606   $aEnvironmentalism
606   $aGlobalization
606   $aHistoriography$xEconomic aspects
607   $aUnited States$xHistoriography
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615  0$aGlobalization.
615  0$aHistoriography$xEconomic aspects.
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