Age of fracture / Daniel T. Rodgers

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodgers, Daniel T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture conflict--United States--History--20th century.

Culture conflict.

Politics and culture--United States--History--20th century.

Politics and culture.

Individualism--United States--History--20th century.

Individualism.

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Political culture--United States--History--20th century.

Political culture.

United States--Civilization--1970-.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

United States--Economic conditions--1971-1981.

United States--Economic conditions--1981-2001.

United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rodgers presents the first broadly gauged history of the ideas and arguments that profoundly reshaped America in the last quarter of the twentieth century. From the ways in which Ronald Reagan changed the formulas of the Cold War presidency to the era’s intense debates over gender, race, economics, and history, it maps the dynamics through which mid-twentieth-century ideas of structure fell apart between the mid 1970s and the end of the century. Where conventional histories of modern America have focused on specific decades, the book traces the larger transformations in social ideas and visions that reshaped the era from the early 1970s through the end of the century.

Contents:

Losing the words of the Cold War

The rediscovery of the market

The search for power

Race and social memory

Gender and certainty

The little platoons of society

Wrinkles in time.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674059528

0674059522

OCLC:

709591729