Culture, Capitalism, and Democracy in the New America
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: June 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780300100259
Subjects: American history; Cultural studies; Postmodernism; Political Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Politics/International Relations; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Current Events / General; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Capitalism; Democracy; Political culture; United States
First sentence: The United States is in transit from an industrial to a postindustrial society, from modern to postmodern, from national to global.
Description: According to Brown, the US is in transit from an industrial to a post-industrial society, from a modern to a postmodern culture from a national to a global economy. This book focuses on the ways in which economic imperatives give shape to the shifting experience of being American.