Destiny of Choice? (eBook)
202 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-7220-9 (ISBN)
In the twentieth century, Americans thought of the United States as a land of opportunity and equality. To what extent and for whom this was true was, of course, a matter of debate, however especially during the Cold War, many Americans clung to the patriotic conviction that America was the land of the free. At the same time, another national ideal emerged that was far less contentious, that arguably came to subsume the ideals of freedom, opportunity, and equality, and that eventually embodied an unspoken consensus about what constitutes the good society in a postmodern setting. This was the ideal of choice, broadly understood as the proposition that the good society provides individuals with the power to shape the contours of their lives in ways that suit their personal interests, idiosyncrasies, and tastes. By the closing decades of the century, Americans were widely agreed that theirs wasor at least should bethe land of choice.In A Destiny of Choice?, David Blanke and David Steigerwald bring together important scholarship on the tension between two leading interpretations of modern American consumer culture. That modern consumerism reflects the social, cultural, economic, and political changes that accompanied the country's transition from a local, producer economy dominated by limited choices and restricted credit to a national consumer marketplace based on the individual selection of mass-produced, mass-advertised, and mass-distributed goods. This debate is central to the economic difficulties seen in the United States today.
David Blanke is professor of history and chair at Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi.David Steigerwald is professor o f history at The Ohio State University
Chapter 1. “Choice as the American Ideal: The Scholars’ Conundrum,” By David Blanke and David SteigerwaldChapter 2. “The Imperial Politics of Globavore Consumption in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries,” by Kristin HogansonChapter 3. “Emotions in the Marketplace,” by Susan J. MattChapter 4. “Inconspicuous Consumers in the United States-Mexico Borderlands,” by Alexis McCrossenChapter 5. “Beyond the Producer/Consumer Divide: Expert Consumers in American Home Audio, 1945-1975,” by Jeffrey TangChapter 6. “David Riesman on the Frontiers of Consumption,” by David SteigerwaldChapter 7. “Aggravating Autos, Gyp Mechanics and the Limits of Consumer Advocacy,” by Kevin BorgChapter 8. “Behold their Mighty Hands – Commercial Film and the Perversity of Modern Mass Consumerism,” by David BlankeChapter 9. “Moses and the Marketplace: Ten Commandments Monuments and the Postwar Youth Crisis,” by Joseph HakerChapter 10. “Unraveling the Culture of War: Global Hollywood and American Politics in the Age of 9/11,” by Lary MayChapter 11. “Concluding Thoughts,” by David Blanke and David Steigerwald
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.2.2013 |
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Co-Autor | Kevin Borg, Joseph Haker, Kristin Hoganson, Susan J. Matt, Lary May, Alexis McCrossen, Jeffrey Tang |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Ökonometrie | |
Schlagworte | American History • Culture and Change • Sociology |
ISBN-10 | 0-7391-7220-4 / 0739172204 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7391-7220-9 / 9780739172209 |
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