Why the American Century?

Name: Why the American Century?
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ISBN: 9780226994628

ISBN-10: 0226994627

ISBN-13: 9780226994628

Edition: 2000

Authors: Olivier Zunz

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Reinterpreting our country's rise to world power, Olivier Zunz shows how American elites appropriated the twentieth century. Policymakers, corporate managers, engineers, scientists, and social scientists promoted a social contract of abundance and a controversial theory of pluralism. Their efforts created a model of middle class behavior for America and for the rest of the world. "It should certainly be the task of historians to explain the nation's triumphs as effectively as they have explained its failures, and Zunz in this intelligent, learned and ambitious book suggests a valuable new model for doing so."--Alan Brinkley, Times Literary Supplement "Zunz is evenhanded in his judgments.…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 270
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Olivier Zunz is the Commonwealth Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of "Why the American Century?", "Making America Corporate", and "The Changing Face of Inequality".



Preface: "The New Colossus"



Making the Century American



Producers, Brokers, and Users of Knowledge



Defining Tools of Social Intelligence



Inventing the Average American



The Social Contract of the Market



Turning out Consumers



Deradicalizing Class



Embattled Identities



From Voluntarism to Pluralism



Enlarging the Polity



Exporting American Principles



Individualism and Modernization



The Power of Uncertainty


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index