Age of Fracture

Name: Age of Fracture
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ISBN: 9780674064362

ISBN-10: 0674064364

ISBN-13: 9780674064362

Edition: 2011

Authors: Daniel T. Rodgers

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In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to fragment. Mid-century concepts of national consensus, managed markets, gender and racial identities, citizen obligation, and historical memory became more fluid. Flexible markets pushed aside Keynesian macroeconomic structures. Racial and gender solidarity divided into multiple identities; community responsibility shrank to smaller circles. In this wide-ranging narrative, Daniel Rodgers shows how the collective purposes and meanings that had framed social debate became unhinged and uncertain.Age of Fracture offers a powerful reinterpretation of the ways in which the decades surrounding the 1980s…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.144

Tudor Parfitt is Research Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs and President Navon Professor of Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies at Florida International University and Emeritus Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.Daniel T. Rodgers is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University.



Prologue



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


Epilogue 9/11


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index