A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
8 best books like A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Lizabeth Cohen): Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right, England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations, Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
| Author | Kathleen M. Brown |
| ISBN | 0807846236 |
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia....
Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
| Author | Lisa McGirr |
| ISBN | 0691096112 |
In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John Birchers's accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. Mainstream America snickered...
England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond
| Author | Jon Savage |
| ISBN | 0312288220 |
England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment they defined for music fans in England and the United States. Savage brings to life the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid implosion of the Pistols through layers of rich detail, exclusive...
| Author | Jack N. Rakove |
| ISBN | 0679781218 |
From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so,...
The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable...
I'm very enthusiastic about the way Cavell does things (though his writing does feel verbose at times). I don't have the most sophisticated understanding of /The Claim of Reason/ yet but I would characterize him as approaching basic longstanding questions (how do I know I'm not dreaming? how do I know...
Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations
| Author | Michael Walzer |
| ISBN | 0465037070 |
From the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai Massacre, from the wars in the Balkans through the first war in Iraq, Michael Walzer examines the moral issues surrounding military theory, war crimes, and the spoils of war. He studies a variety of conflicts over the course of history, as well as the testimony...
Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace
| Author | Nancy MacLean |
| ISBN | 0674019091 |
In the 1950s, the exclusion of women and of black and Latino men from higher-paying jobs was so universal as to seem normal to most Americans. Today, diversity in the workforce is a point of pride. How did such a transformation come about? In this bold and groundbreaking work, Nancy MacLean shows how African-American...
