Creative Society - and the Price Americans Paid for It

Name: Creative Society - and the Price Americans Paid for It
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ISBN: 9781107600997

ISBN-10: 1107600995

ISBN-13: 9781107600997

Edition: 2011

Authors: Louis Galambos

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The Creative Society is the first history to look at modern America through the eyes of its emerging ranks of professional experts, including lawyers, scientists, doctors, administrators, business managers, teachers, policy specialists, and urban planners. Covering the period from the 1890s to the early twenty-first century, Louis Galambos examines the history that shaped professionals and, in turn, their role in shaping modern America. He considers the roles of education, anti-Semitism, racism, and elitism in shaping and defining the professional cadre and examines how matters of gender, race, and ethnicity determined whether women, African Americans, and immigrants from Europe, Asia,…

Book details

List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/29/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Preface



1931



Life, Death, and Learning in the Cities



Toward a New Economy, 1890 to 1930



State Crafting - American Style



Confronting the World



Winners and Losers, 1890 to 1930



New Deal Experiments



Fighting on God's Side



The New Aristocracy, 1946 to 1969



The Suburban Conquest of the 1960s



Empire in the American Century



The Tattered Empire of the 1970s



The Cracked Core



The American Solution, 1981 to 2001



Conservatism: Rhetoric and Realities, 1981 to 2001



The Hegemony Trap



The American Dream, 1981 to 2001



The Creative Society in Danger


Acknowledgments


Index