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Democratic Empire : The United States Since 1945.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New York Academy of Sciences SeriesPublisher: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (390 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781119027461
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Democratic EmpireDDC classification:
  • 973.92
LOC classification:
  • E741 .C84 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude: The Imperial Logic of the American Dream -- Part I The Postwar Decades -- Chapter 1 Victory and Anxiety: World War and Cold War, 1945-1962 -- Colony to Colonizer: American Rise to Globalism -- Wages of War: Triumph over Germany and Japan -- First Frost: Dawn of the Cold War -- Seeing Red: The Cold War at Home -- Playing with Dominoes: Cold War Hot Spots -- Cold War Showdown: Cuba -- culture watch: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955/1956) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Conformity and Rebellion: American Culture and Politics, 1945-1963 -- Best Worst Time: Early Postwar Years -- Boom! The Postwar Economy Explodes -- Rising Suburbs: Life on the Crabgrass Frontier -- Restless in the Promised Land: Suburbia's Critics -- Free Movement: Early Civil Rights Struggles -- Big Bangs: 1950s Youth Culture -- culture watch: A Raisin in the Sun (1959) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Part II The Long 1960s -- Chapter 3 Confidence and Agitation: The American Empire at High Tide, 1960-1965 -- Dishing: The Kitchen Debate as Domestic Squabble -- American Prince: JFK -- Grand Expectations: The Birth of "the Sixties" -- Overcoming: The Civil Rights Movement Crests -- Voices: Popular Culture of the Early 1960s -- Countercurrents: Civil Rights Skeptics -- Lone Star Rising: The LBJ Moment -- Flanking Maneuver: Johnson in Vietnam -- Fissures: Democratic Fault Lines -- culture watch: "The Times They Are A-Changin'" (1964) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Fulfillment and Frustration: An Empire in Conflict, 1965-1974 -- Over the Moon: Winning the Space Race -- Imperial Quagmire: The Vietnam Wars -- Down from the Mountaintop: The Civil Rights Movement -- Turning Point: 1968 -- Right Rising: The Return of Richard Nixon.
Women's Work: The Feminist Movement -- Rainbows: Rights Revolutions -- Grim Peace: Endgame in Vietnam -- Crooked Justice: The Triumph and Fall of Nixon -- culture watch: Easy Rider (1969) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Experimentation and Exhaustion: Political Culture of the Sixties, 1965-1975 -- The Great Divide: Establishment and Counterculture -- (de)Construction Sites: The Rise of Postmodernism -- System Failure: The Reorganization of Hollywood -- Medium Dominant: Television -- Fit Print: Publishing -- Kingdom of Rebels: The Reign of Rock -- culture watch: "Chuckles the Clown Bites the Dust," The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1975) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Interlude -- Chapter 6 Reassessment and Nostalgia: The American Empire in the Age of Limits, 1973-1980 -- 1973: Hinge of American History -- Apocalypse Now: The New Gloom -- Depressingly Decent: Ford and Carter -- Solitary Refinement: The Me Decade -- Body Politics: Gender and Its Discontents -- Rebellion and Revival: Pop Culture of the Late Seventies -- Right Signal: The Conservative Turn -- culture watch: Taxi Driver (1976) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Part III Indian Summer -- Chapter 7 Revival and Denial: The American Empire on Borrowed Time, 1981-1991 -- Right Man: The Age of Reagan -- Making the Cut: Reaganomics -- Breaking Ice: Reagan and the Cold War -- Headwinds: Second-Term Blues -- For God's Sake: Social Conservatism -- Left Ahead: The Legacy of the Sixties in the Eighties -- Swan Song: Reagan and the Soviets -- 41: The (First) Bush Years -- Freely Intervening: United States as Sole Superpower -- culture watch: The House on Mango Street (1984) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Innovation and Nostalgia: The Culture of the Eighties, 1981-1989 -- Small Transformations: The Rise of the Personal Computer.
Consuming Pleasures: Old Fashions, New Gadgets -- Seeing Music: Music Television, or MTV -- Yo! African American Culture and the Birth of Hip-Hop -- Bourne in the USA: Dissident Voices -- culture watch: "The Message" (1982) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Prosperity and Distraction: The Post-Cold War Era, 1991-2001 -- Opposing Justice: The Hill-Thomas Imbroglio -- Not Black and White: The Changing Colors of Race -- Thug Life: Gangsta Rap -- Running Saga: The O. J. Simpson Case -- Family Matters: Demography and the Assault on Patriarchy -- Culture War: The Fall of George Bush -- Comeback Kid: The Rises and Falls of Bill Clinton -- La Vida Loca: The Roaring Nineties -- Tech Sec: Toward the Internet -- Insulated Intervention: US Foreign Policy -- Recount: The 2000 Election -- culture watch: Exile in Guyville (1993) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Part IV Present Tense -- Chapter 10 Comfort and Dread: The American Empire in Decline, 2001-present -- Towering Collapse: 9/11 -- Unknown Unknowns: The Iraq War -- Spending Resources: The Debt Society -- Bushed: Second-Term Blues -- Downloading: Twenty-first Century Pop Culture -- Posting: Web 2.0 -- Freely Unequal: The Tottering US Economy -- Audacious Hopes: The Rise of Barack Obama -- Future History: The Present as Past -- culture watch: "Made in America," The Sopranos (2007) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Postlude: The Ends of the American Century -- Index -- EULA.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude: The Imperial Logic of the American Dream -- Part I The Postwar Decades -- Chapter 1 Victory and Anxiety: World War and Cold War, 1945-1962 -- Colony to Colonizer: American Rise to Globalism -- Wages of War: Triumph over Germany and Japan -- First Frost: Dawn of the Cold War -- Seeing Red: The Cold War at Home -- Playing with Dominoes: Cold War Hot Spots -- Cold War Showdown: Cuba -- culture watch: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955/1956) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Conformity and Rebellion: American Culture and Politics, 1945-1963 -- Best Worst Time: Early Postwar Years -- Boom! The Postwar Economy Explodes -- Rising Suburbs: Life on the Crabgrass Frontier -- Restless in the Promised Land: Suburbia's Critics -- Free Movement: Early Civil Rights Struggles -- Big Bangs: 1950s Youth Culture -- culture watch: A Raisin in the Sun (1959) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Part II The Long 1960s -- Chapter 3 Confidence and Agitation: The American Empire at High Tide, 1960-1965 -- Dishing: The Kitchen Debate as Domestic Squabble -- American Prince: JFK -- Grand Expectations: The Birth of "the Sixties" -- Overcoming: The Civil Rights Movement Crests -- Voices: Popular Culture of the Early 1960s -- Countercurrents: Civil Rights Skeptics -- Lone Star Rising: The LBJ Moment -- Flanking Maneuver: Johnson in Vietnam -- Fissures: Democratic Fault Lines -- culture watch: "The Times They Are A-Changin'" (1964) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Fulfillment and Frustration: An Empire in Conflict, 1965-1974 -- Over the Moon: Winning the Space Race -- Imperial Quagmire: The Vietnam Wars -- Down from the Mountaintop: The Civil Rights Movement -- Turning Point: 1968 -- Right Rising: The Return of Richard Nixon.

Women's Work: The Feminist Movement -- Rainbows: Rights Revolutions -- Grim Peace: Endgame in Vietnam -- Crooked Justice: The Triumph and Fall of Nixon -- culture watch: Easy Rider (1969) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Experimentation and Exhaustion: Political Culture of the Sixties, 1965-1975 -- The Great Divide: Establishment and Counterculture -- (de)Construction Sites: The Rise of Postmodernism -- System Failure: The Reorganization of Hollywood -- Medium Dominant: Television -- Fit Print: Publishing -- Kingdom of Rebels: The Reign of Rock -- culture watch: "Chuckles the Clown Bites the Dust," The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1975) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Interlude -- Chapter 6 Reassessment and Nostalgia: The American Empire in the Age of Limits, 1973-1980 -- 1973: Hinge of American History -- Apocalypse Now: The New Gloom -- Depressingly Decent: Ford and Carter -- Solitary Refinement: The Me Decade -- Body Politics: Gender and Its Discontents -- Rebellion and Revival: Pop Culture of the Late Seventies -- Right Signal: The Conservative Turn -- culture watch: Taxi Driver (1976) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Part III Indian Summer -- Chapter 7 Revival and Denial: The American Empire on Borrowed Time, 1981-1991 -- Right Man: The Age of Reagan -- Making the Cut: Reaganomics -- Breaking Ice: Reagan and the Cold War -- Headwinds: Second-Term Blues -- For God's Sake: Social Conservatism -- Left Ahead: The Legacy of the Sixties in the Eighties -- Swan Song: Reagan and the Soviets -- 41: The (First) Bush Years -- Freely Intervening: United States as Sole Superpower -- culture watch: The House on Mango Street (1984) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Innovation and Nostalgia: The Culture of the Eighties, 1981-1989 -- Small Transformations: The Rise of the Personal Computer.

Consuming Pleasures: Old Fashions, New Gadgets -- Seeing Music: Music Television, or MTV -- Yo! African American Culture and the Birth of Hip-Hop -- Bourne in the USA: Dissident Voices -- culture watch: "The Message" (1982) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Prosperity and Distraction: The Post-Cold War Era, 1991-2001 -- Opposing Justice: The Hill-Thomas Imbroglio -- Not Black and White: The Changing Colors of Race -- Thug Life: Gangsta Rap -- Running Saga: The O. J. Simpson Case -- Family Matters: Demography and the Assault on Patriarchy -- Culture War: The Fall of George Bush -- Comeback Kid: The Rises and Falls of Bill Clinton -- La Vida Loca: The Roaring Nineties -- Tech Sec: Toward the Internet -- Insulated Intervention: US Foreign Policy -- Recount: The 2000 Election -- culture watch: Exile in Guyville (1993) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Part IV Present Tense -- Chapter 10 Comfort and Dread: The American Empire in Decline, 2001-present -- Towering Collapse: 9/11 -- Unknown Unknowns: The Iraq War -- Spending Resources: The Debt Society -- Bushed: Second-Term Blues -- Downloading: Twenty-first Century Pop Culture -- Posting: Web 2.0 -- Freely Unequal: The Tottering US Economy -- Audacious Hopes: The Rise of Barack Obama -- Future History: The Present as Past -- culture watch: "Made in America," The Sopranos (2007) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Postlude: The Ends of the American Century -- Index -- EULA.

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