Ruling America : a history of wealth and power in a democracy /
Ruling America 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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2005.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The dilemmas of ruling elites in revolutionary America / Gary J. Kornblith and John M. Murrin
- The "slave power" in the United States, 1783-1865 / Adam Rothman
- Merchants and manufacturers in the antebellum North / Sven Beckert
- Gilded Age gospels / David Nasaw
- The abortive rule of big money / Alan Dawley
- The managerial revitalization of the rich / Jackson Lears
- The foreign policy establishment / Godfrey Hodgson
- Conservative elites and the counterrevolution against the New Deal / Michael Lind
- Coda : democracy in America / Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle.