Sowing The American Dream
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Sowing The American Dream
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Author : David Blanke
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2000
Sowing The American Dream written by David Blanke and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Consumer behavior categories.
From 1840 to 1900, midwestern Americans experienced firsthand the profound economic, cultural, and structural changes that transformed the nation from a premodern, agrarian state to one that was urban, industrial, and economically interdependent. Midwestern commercial farmers found themselves at the heart of these changes. Their actions and reactions led to the formation of a distinctive and particularly democratic consumer ethos, which is still being played out today. By focusing on the consumer behavior of midwestern farmers, Sowing the American Dream provides illustrative examples of how Americans came to terms with the economic and ideological changes that swirled around them. From the formation of the Grange to the advent of mail-order catalogs, the buying patterns of rural midwesterners set the stage for the coming century. Carefully documenting the rise and fall of the powerful purchasing cooperatives, David Blanke explains the shifting trends in collective consumerism, which ultimately resulted in a significant change in the way that midwestern consumers pursued their own regional identity, community, and independence.
Sowing The American Dream
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Author : David Blanke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
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The Routledge Handbook On The American Dream
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Author : Robert C. Hauhart
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-11-30
The Routledge Handbook On The American Dream written by Robert C. Hauhart and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-30 with Social Science categories.
The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream: Volume 2 explores the social, economic, and cultural aspects of the American Dream in both theory and reality in the twenty-first century. This collection of essays brings together leading scholars from a range of fields to further develop the themes and issues explored in the first volume. The concept of the American Dream, first expounded by James Truslow Adams in The Epic of America in 1931, is at once both ubiquitous and difficult to define. The term perfectly captures the hopes of freedom, opportunity and upward social mobility invested in the nation. However, the American Dream appears increasingly illusory in the face of widening inequality and apparent lack of opportunity, particularly for the poor and ethnic, or otherwise marginalized, minorities in the United States. As such, an understanding of the American Dream through both theoretical analyses and empirical studies, whether qualitative or quantitative, is crucial to understanding contemporary America. Like the first volume of The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream, this collection will be of great interest to students and researchers in a range of fields in the humanities and social sciences.
The American Dream
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Author : Peter Bruck
language : en
Publisher: Ernst Klett Sprachen
Release Date : 1995
The American Dream written by Peter Bruck and has been published by Ernst Klett Sprachen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with categories.
The American Dream
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Author : Lawrence R. Samuel
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-27
The American Dream written by Lawrence R. Samuel and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-27 with History categories.
There is no better way to understand America than by understanding the cultural history of the American Dream. Rather than just a powerful philosophy or ideology, the Dream is thoroughly woven into the fabric of everyday life, playing a vital role in who we are, what we do, and why we do it. No other idea or mythology has as much influence on our individual and collective lives. Tracing the history of the phrase in popular culture, Samuel gives readers a field guide to the evolution of our national identity over the last eighty years. Samuel tells the story chronologically, revealing that there have been six major eras of the mythology since the phrase was coined in 1931. Relying mainly on period magazines and newspapers as his primary source material, the author demonstrates that journalists serving on the front lines of the scene represent our most valuable resource to recover unfiltered stories of the Dream. The problem, however, is that it does not exist, the Dream is just that, a product of our imagination. That it is not real ultimately turns out to be the most significant finding about the American Drea, and what makes the story most compelling.
The American Dream
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Author : Jim Cullen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2004
The American Dream written by Jim Cullen and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
The first "narrative history" traces the thread that binds the dreams and aspirations of most Americans together, exploring shared history and sacred texts--the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence--in search of the origins of these ideas.
Pursuing The American Dream
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Author : Calvin C. Jillson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Pursuing The American Dream written by Calvin C. Jillson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Marked by continuity, renewal, and expansion, the image of the Dream, Jillson contends, has been remarkably constant since well before the American Revolution - an image of a nation offering a better chance for prosperity than any other. His book reveals how that Dream has motivated our nation s leaders and common citizens to move, sometimes grudgingly, toward a more open, diverse, and genuinely competitive society.
The American Dream
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
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The Routledge Handbook On The American Dream
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Author : Robert C. Hauhart
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-29
The Routledge Handbook On The American Dream written by Robert C. Hauhart and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-29 with Social Science categories.
What do we mean by the American dream? Can we define it? Or does any discussion of the phrase end inconclusively, the solid turned liquid—like ice melting? Do we know whether the American dream motivates and inspires or, alternately, obscures and deceives? The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream offers distinctive, authoritative, original essays by well-known scholars that address the social, economic, historical, philosophic, legal, and cultural dimensions of the American dream for the twenty-first century. The American dream, first discussed and defined in print by James Truslow Adams’s The Epic of America (1931), has become nearly synonymous with being American. Adams’s definition, although known to scholars, is often lost in our ubiquitous use of the term. When used today, the iconic phrase seems to encapsulate every fashion, fad, trend, association, or image the user identifies with the United States or American life. The American dream’s ubiquity, though, argues eloquently for a deeper understanding of its heritage, its implications, and its impact—to be found in this first research handbook ever published on the topic.
An American Dream
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Author : Norman Mailer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
An American Dream written by Norman Mailer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with categories.