God, guns, gold and glory : American character and its discontents /

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America, beginning as a small group of devout Puritan settlers, ultimately became the richest, most powerful Empire in the history of the world, but having reached that point, is now in a process of implosion and decay. This book, inspired by Frankfurt School Critical Theory, especially Erich Fromm,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Langman, Lauren, 1940- (Autor), Lundskow, George N., 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Colección:Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 93.
Temas:
National characteristics, American.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Civilization
Intellectual life
National characteristics, American
Social conditions
Soziographie
USA.
United States > Intellectual life.
United States > Civilization.
United States > Social conditions.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle.
États-Unis > Civilisation.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • God and his chosen people: Act II
  • America: chasing the pot of gold
  • Guns: violence, gender and American character
  • Glory: the rise and fall of American exceptionalism
  • The sorrows of American character
  • 49 shades of social character and one more on the way
  • Epilogue.

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