1970s A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality

Name: 1970s A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality
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ISBN: 9780691157917

ISBN-10: 069115791X

ISBN-13: 9780691157917

Edition: 2011

Authors: Thomas Borstelmann

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The 1970slooks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis, global unrest, and disillusionment with military efforts in Vietnam, Thomas Borstelmann creates a new framework for understanding the period and its legacy. He demonstrates how the 1970s increased social inclusiveness and, at the same time, encouraged commitments to the free market and wariness of government. As a result, American culture and much of the rest of the world became more--and less--equal.Borstelmann explores how the 1970s forged…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.33" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.540

Thomas ("Tim") Borstelmann is the Elwood N. and Katherine Thompson Distinguished Professor of Modern World History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.



List of Illustrations


Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction



Crosscurrents of Crisis in 1970s America


Trouble Abroad


Corruption at Home


Conservatism and the Distrust of Government


Economic Insecurity


Turning Inward



The Rising Tide of Equality and Democratic Reform


Women in the Public Sphere


Women in the Private Sphere


The Many Frontiers of Equality


Political Reform


Resistance



The Spread of Market Values


A Sea Change of Principles


The Economy Goes South


Globalization's Gathering Speed


From Citizenship to Deregulation


Market Solutions for Every Problem


A Freer Market, A Coarser Culture



The Retreat of Empires and the Global Advance of the Market


The Emergence of Human Rights


European Empires and Southern Africa


The Soviet Empire


The American Empire


The Israeli Exception


The Retreat of the State


China and the Hollowing Out of Socialism



Resistance to the New Hyper-Individualism


The Environmentalist Challenge


Religious Resurgence at Home


Religious Resurgence in Israel


Religious Resurgence in the Muslim World


Jimmy Carter as a Man of His Times



More and Less Equal since the 1970s


Evidence to the Contrary


Inclusiveness Ascending


Markets Persisting


Unrestrained Consumption


Inequality Rising


Conclusion


Notes


Index