Farewell to prosperity : wealth, identity, and conflict in postwar america / / Lisle A. Rose ; jacket design, Kristie Lee ; interior design and composition, Mindy Basinger Hill

• Autore: Rose Lisle A.
• Pubblicazione: Columbia, Missouri : , : University of Missouri Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (492 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.92
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 1945-1989; United States Economic conditions 1945-
• Persona (resp. second.): LeeKristie; HillMindy Basinger
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- 1. Schism in the soul -- 2. Flush times -- 3. Cold War imprisonment -- 4. Jacob's ladder -- 5. Troubles in the making -- 6. Varieties of dissent -- 7. Liberal overreach -- 8. Volte face -- 9. Back to the future -- 10. Conservative overreach -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Money and race have composed the master narratives of American history. But the civil rights impulse of the past fifty years with its vigorous supporting scholarship has elevated the importance of the latter while unwarrantedlyeclipsing the central place of the former. Yet it was the demands of a capitalist order grounded in a money economy run by white male Protestants that until quite recently made racial (and many would argue gender) oppression so attractive and, in some cases, and in one region, imperative. From the outset, life in the United States has been defined by a blind embrace of business and commerce, a rabid quest for wealth, and a persistent economic overreach enveloped in a widespread obsession with evangelical religion and personal salvation.
• Titolo autorizzato: Farewell to prosperity
• ISBN: 0-8262-7323-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786627103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II