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HY/AS3240 Making America Modern |
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A/P Ian Gordon |
Lecture 11
A Consumer's
Republic
Outline
Key
Content: Reshaping Postwar America Suburban Modernism
Reading:
Lizabeth Cohen,
A Consumer's
Republic: The Politics Of Mass Consumption In Postwar America.
New
York: Knopf, 2003. Chapter Three, pp. 112-165.
I. Introduction
II. Post War Growth
1. Economic Growth
2. Baby Boom
3. Changes in Social Structure
III.
The Ideology of Abundance and Adjustment
1. The Classless Society
2. The Organizational Man
3. The Organizational Woman
4. Suburbia
IV. Trouble in Paradise
1. The Other Side of the Picture
The Other America: Poverty in the United States
2. The American character transformed?
The Lonely Crowd
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