Riches Class And Power
DOWNLOAD
Download Riches Class And Power PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Riches Class And Power book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Riches Class And Power
DOWNLOAD
Author : Edward Pessen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-12
Riches Class And Power written by Edward Pessen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-12 with History categories.
Until publication of Riches, Classes, and Power, Alexis de Tocquerville's vision of the United States as a generally egalitarian nation predominated. While historians might quarrel about the social sources of egalitarianism, they did not dispute the soundness of the basic model; and Tocqueville's vision clearly dominated American's sense of itself as well. A self-acknowledged congenital skeptic, Pessen decided to find out whether the facts of American life sustained Tocqueville's conclusions. Riches, Class, and Power, represents more than five years' intensive research on the wealth, family backgrounds, careers, marriages, residential patterns, uses of leisure, life-styles, social standing, and influence and power of the wealthy in four of the five largest cities in the United States before the Civil War. Pessen examines New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and the then-separate city of Brooklyn in the 1820s and 1840s. His claim is that the massive evidence on urban life of the time sharply refutes Tocqueville's thesis. A National Book Award finalist for history, Riches, Class, and Power undoubtedly helped reshape America before the Civil War. In his reintroduction to this paperback edition, Pessen reviews the critical reaction, and reconsiders the extent to which its findings are applicable to the social structure of small or frontier towns of the period. He discusses whether unequal distribution of wealth in America results more from changes in historical circumstance or to shifts in demographic or age structure.
Riches Class And Power Before The Civil War
DOWNLOAD
Author : Edward Pessen
language : en
Publisher: Lexington, Mass. : D. C. Heath
Release Date : 1973
Riches Class And Power Before The Civil War written by Edward Pessen and has been published by Lexington, Mass. : D. C. Heath this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Business & Economics categories.
The American Dream And The Power Of Wealth
DOWNLOAD
Author : Heather Beth Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-11-20
The American Dream And The Power Of Wealth written by Heather Beth Johnson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-20 with Social Science categories.
Despite the overwhelming evidence against them, many people still believe they can overcome the economic and racial constraints placed upon them at birth. In the first edition, Heather Beth Johnson explored this belief in the American Dream with over 200 in-depth interviews with black and white families, highlighting the ever-increasing racial wealth gap and the actual inequality in opportunities. This second edition has been updated to make it fully relevant to today’s reader, with new data and illustrative examples, including twenty new interviews. Johnson asks not just what parents are thinking about inequality and the American Dream, but to what extent children believe in the American Dream and how they explain, justify, and understand the stratification of American society. This book is an ideal addition to courses on race and inequality.
Wealth And Power In America
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Wealth And Power In America written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
Wealth And Power In America
DOWNLOAD
Author : Gabriel Kolko
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Wealth And Power In America written by Gabriel Kolko and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Income categories.
Gabriel Kolko points to unemployment, hidden income, unequal tax burdens, and poverty as leading to greater failure in future economic democracy.
Wealth And Power
DOWNLOAD
Author : Orville Schell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-07-16
Wealth And Power written by Orville Schell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-16 with History categories.
By now everyone knows the basic facts of China's rise to pre-eminence over the past three decades. But how did this erstwhile sleeping giant finally manage to arrive at its current phase of dynamic growth? How did a century-long succession of failures to change somehow culminate in the extraordinary dynamism of China today? By examining the lives of eleven influential officials, writers, activists and leaders whose contributions helped create modern China, Wealth and Power addresses these questions. This fascinating survey moves from the lead-up to the first Opium War through to contemporary opposition to single-party rule. Along the way, we meet titans of Chinese history, intellectuals and political figures. By unwrapping the intellectual antecedents of today's resurgent China, Orville Schell and John Delury supply much-needed insight into the country's tortured progression from nineteenth-century decline to twenty-first-century boom. By looking backward into the past to understand forces at work for hundreds of years, they help us understand China today and the future that this singular country is helping shape for all of us.
The Rich And The Super Rich
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ferdinand Lundberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
The Rich And The Super Rich written by Ferdinand Lundberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Capitalists and financiers categories.
Wealth And Democracy
DOWNLOAD
Author : Kevin Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2003-04-08
Wealth And Democracy written by Kevin Phillips and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-08 with History categories.
For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have influenced presidential campaigns and changed the way America sees itself. Widely acknowledging Phillips as one of the nation's most perceptive thinkers, reviewers have called him a latter-day Nostradamus and our "modern Thomas Paine." Now, in the first major book of its kind since the 1930s, he turns his attention to the United States' history of great wealth and power, a sweeping cavalcade from the American Revolution to what he calls "the Second Gilded Age" at the turn of the twenty-first century. The Second Gilded Age has been staggering enough in its concentration of wealth to dwarf the original Gilded Age a hundred years earlier. However, the tech crash and then the horrible events of September 11, 2001, pointed out that great riches are as vulnerable as they have ever been. In Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips charts the ongoing American saga of great wealth–how it has been accumulated, its shifting sources, and its ups and downs over more than two centuries. He explores how the rich and politically powerful have frequently worked together to create or perpetuate privilege, often at the expense of the national interest and usually at the expense of the middle and lower classes. With intriguing chapters on history and bold analysis of present-day America, Phillips illuminates the dangerous politics that go with excessive concentration of wealth. Profiling wealthy Americans–from Astor to Carnegie and Rockefeller to contemporary wealth holders–Phillips provides fascinating details about the peculiarly American ways of becoming and staying a multimillionaire. He exposes the subtle corruption spawned by a money culture and financial power, evident in economic philosophy, tax favoritism, and selective bailouts in the name of free enterprise, economic stimulus, and national security. Finally, Wealth and Democracy turns to the history of Britain and other leading world economic powers to examine the symptoms that signaled their declines–speculative finance, mounting international debt, record wealth, income polarization, and disgruntled politics–signs that we recognize in America at the start of the twenty-first century. In a time of national crisis, Phillips worries that the growing parallels suggest the tide may already be turning for us all.
Wealth And The Power Of Wealth In Classical Athens
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Kenyon Davies
language : en
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Release Date : 1984
Wealth And The Power Of Wealth In Classical Athens written by John Kenyon Davies and has been published by Beaufort Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
The New Rich In China
DOWNLOAD
Author : David Goodman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-05-07
The New Rich In China written by David Goodman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-07 with History categories.
Three decades of reform since 1978 in the People’s Republic of China have resulted in the emergence of new social groups which have included new occupations and professions generated as the economy has opened up and developed and, most spectacularly given the legacy of state socialism, the identification of those who are regarded as wealthy. However, although China’s new rich are certainly a consequence of globalization, there remains a need for caution in assuming either that China’s new rich are a middle class, or that if they are they should immediately be equated with a universal middle class. Including sections on class, status and power, agency and structure and lifestyle The New Rich in China investigates the political, socio-economic and cultural characteristics of the emergent new rich in China, the similarities and differences to similar phenomenon elsewhere and the consequences of the new rich for China itself. In doing so it links the importance of China to the world economy and helps us understand how the growth of China’s new rich may influence our understanding of social change elsewhere. This is a subject that will become increasingly important as China continues its development and private entrepreneurship continues to be encouraged and as such The New Rich in China will be an invaluable volume for students and scholars of Chinese studies, history and politics and social change.