Dark Ages America The Final Phase of Empire

Name: Dark Ages America The Final Phase of Empire
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ISBN: 9780393329773

ISBN-10: 0393329771

ISBN-13: 9780393329773

Edition: 2007

Authors: Morris Berman

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"Provocative...stimulating and insightful."--"Publishers Weekly" In "Dark Ages America," the pundit Morris Berman argues that the nation has entered a dangerous phase in its historical development from which there is no return. As the corporate-consumerist juggernaut that now defines the nation rolls on, the very factors that once propelled America to greatness--extreme individualism, territorial and economic expansion, and the pursuit of material wealth--are, paradoxically, the nails in our collective coffin. Within a few decades, Berman argues, the United States will be marginalized on the world stage, its hegemony replaced by China or the European Union. With the United States just one…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 402
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.82" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Liquid Modernity



Economy, Technology



The Home and the World



Pax Americana



Axis of Resentment: Iran, Iraq, and Israel



The Meaning of 9/11



The Roads Not Taken



The State of the Union



Empire Falls


Notes


Index