Ruling America [[electronic resource] ] : a history of wealth and power in a democracy / / edited by Steve Fraser & Gary Gerstle
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Gerstle Gary
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| Titolo: |
Ruling America [[electronic resource] ] : a history of wealth and power in a democracy / / edited by Steve Fraser & Gary Gerstle
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.5/2/0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Elite (Social sciences) - United States - History |
| Social classes - Political aspects - United States - History | |
| Power (Social sciences) - United States - History | |
| Democracy - United States | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
FraserSteve <1945->
GerstleGary <1954->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Fraser, Steve / Gerstle, Gary -- 1. The Dilemmas of Ruling Elites in Revolutionary America / Kornblith, Gary J. / Murrin, John M. -- 2. The "Slave Power" in the United States, 1783-1865 / Rothman, Adam -- 3. Merchants and Manufacturers in the Antebellum North / Beckert, Sven -- 4. Gilded Age Gospels / Nasaw, David -- 5. The Abortive Rule of Big Money / Dawley, Alan -- 6. The Managerial Revitalization of the Rich / Lears, Jackson -- 7. The Foreign Policy Establishment / Hodgson, Godfrey -- 8. Conservative Elites and the Counterrevolution against the New Deal / Lind, Michael -- Coda: Democracy in America / Fraser, Steve / Gerstle, Gary -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book offers a panoramic history of our country's ruling elites from the time of the American Revolution to the present. At its heart is the greatest of American paradoxes: How have tiny minorities of the rich and privileged consistently exercised so much power in a nation built on the notion of rule by the people? In a series of thought-provoking essays, leading scholars of American history examine every epoch in which ruling economic elites have shaped our national experience. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ruling America |
| ISBN: | 0-674-03719-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454952003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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