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Democratic Empire The United States Since 1945.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2016.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prelude: The Imperial Logic of the American Dream
- Part I The Postwar Decades
- Chapter 1 Victory and Anxiety: World War and Cold War, 1945-1962
- Colony to Colonizer: American Rise to Globalism
- Wages of War: Triumph over Germany and Japan
- First Frost: Dawn of the Cold War
- Seeing Red: The Cold War at Home
- Playing with Dominoes: Cold War Hot Spots
- Cold War Showdown: Cuba
- culture watch: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955/1956)
- Suggested Further Reading
- Notes
- Chapter 2 Conformity and Rebellion: American Culture and Politics, 1945-1963
- Best Worst Time: Early Postwar Years
- Boom! The Postwar Economy Explodes
- Rising Suburbs: Life on the Crabgrass Frontier
- Restless in the Promised Land: Suburbia's Critics
- Free Movement: Early Civil Rights Struggles
- Big Bangs: 1950s Youth Culture
- culture watch: A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
- Suggested Further Reading
- Notes
- Part II The Long 1960s
- Chapter 3 Confidence and Agitation: The American Empire at High Tide, 1960-1965
- Dishing: The Kitchen Debate as Domestic Squabble
- American Prince: JFK
- Grand Expectations: The Birth of "the Sixties"
- Overcoming: The Civil Rights Movement Crests
- Voices: Popular Culture of the Early 1960s
- Countercurrents: Civil Rights Skeptics
- Lone Star Rising: The LBJ Moment
- Flanking Maneuver: Johnson in Vietnam
- Fissures: Democratic Fault Lines
- culture watch: "The Times They Are A-Changin'" (1964)
- Suggested Further Reading
- Notes
- Chapter 4 Fulfillment and Frustration: An Empire in Conflict, 1965-1974
- Over the Moon: Winning the Space Race
- Imperial Quagmire: The Vietnam Wars
- Down from the Mountaintop: The Civil Rights Movement
- Turning Point: 1968
- Right Rising: The Return of Richard Nixon
- Women's Work: The Feminist Movement
- Rainbows: Rights Revolutions
- Grim Peace: Endgame in Vietnam
- Crooked Justice: The Triumph and Fall of Nixon
- culture watch: Easy Rider (1969)
- Suggested Further Reading
- Notes
- Chapter 5 Experimentation and Exhaustion: Political Culture of the Sixties, 1965-1975
- The Great Divide: Establishment and Counterculture
- (de)Construction Sites: The Rise of Postmodernism
- System Failure: The Reorganization of Hollywood
- Medium Dominant: Television
- Fit Print: Publishing
- Kingdom of Rebels: The Reign of Rock
- culture watch: "Chuckles the Clown Bites the Dust," The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1975)
- Suggested Further Reading
- Notes
- Interlude
- Chapter 6 Reassessment and Nostalgia: The American Empire in the Age of Limits, 1973-1980
- 1973: Hinge of American History
- Apocalypse Now: The New Gloom
- Depressingly Decent: Ford and Carter
- Solitary Refinement: The Me Decade
- Body Politics: Gender and Its Discontents
- Rebellion and Revival: Pop Culture of the Late Seventies