The Americans, the democratic experience /
Final volume in a trilogy; the first of which is the author's The Americans, the colonial experience; and the second of which is his The Americans, the national experience.
| Основен автор: | Boorstin, Daniel J. 1914-2004. |
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| Автор-организации: | Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress) |
| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York,
Random House,
[1973].
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| Издание: | [1st ed.]. |
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| Подобни документи: |
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Americans, the democratic experience. |
Съдържание:
- Book One: Everywhere communities
- Part One: The go-getters
- "Gold from the grass roots up"
- Rituals of the open range
- Private wars for the public domain
- Lawless sheriffs and honest desperadoes
- Rounding up rock oil
- Generalized go-getters: lawyers
- Exploiting the federal commodity: divorce and gambling
- Crime as a service institution
- Part Two: Consumption communities
- A democracy of clothing
- Consumers' palaces
- Nationwide customers
- Goods sell themselves
- How farmers joined consumption communities
- Citifying the country
- A new freedom for advertisers: breaking the agate rule
- Building loyalty to consumption communities
- "The consumer is king"
- Christmas and other festivals of consumption
- Part Three: Statistical communities
- A numerical science of community: the rise of the average man
- communities of risk
- Statistical expectations: what's your sizw?
- Making things no better than they need to be
- "The incorruptible cashier"
- Income consciousness
- The rediscovery of poverty
- Measuring the mind
- From "Naughtiness" to "Behavior Deviation"
- Statistical morality
- Part Four: The urban quest for place
- An American diaspora
- Politics for city immigrants
- stretching the city: the decline of main street
- Booming the real estate frontier
- Antidotes for the city: utopia, renewal, suburbia
- Cities within cities: the urban blues
- Book Two: The decline of the miraculous
- Part Five: Leveling times and places
- Condense! making food portable through time
- Meat for the cities
- Varying the everyday menu
- People's palaces on wheels
- Walls become windows
- Homogenizing space
- Part Six: Mass-producing the momnent
- Time becomes fungible: packaging the unit of work
- Making experience repeatable
- Extending experience: the new segregation
- The decline of the unique and the secret
- In search of the spontaneous
- Book Three: A popular culture
- Part Seven: The thinner life of things
- Endless streams of ownership
- New penumbras of property
- The semi-independent businessman
- From packing to packaging: the new strategy of desire
- Part Eight: Language, knowledge, and the arts
- The decline of grammar: the colloquial conquers the classroom
- From oratory to public speaking: fireside politics
- A higher learning for all
- Educating "the Great Army of Incapables"
- Art becomes enigma
- The exotic becomes commonplace
- Book Four: The future on schedule
- Part Nine: Search for novelty
- The social inventor: inventing for the market
- Communities of inventors: solutions in search of problems
- Flow technology: the road to the annual model
- Part Ten: Mission and momentum
- Prologue to foreign aid
- Samartian diplomacy
- Not whether but when: the new momentum
- Epilogue: Unknown costs.