The Future of Bergen and Passaic Counties
Title | The Future of Bergen and Passaic Counties PDF eBook |
Author | Regional Plan Association (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Regional planning |
ISBN |
Future Land Development in Bergen County
Title | Future Land Development in Bergen County PDF eBook |
Author | Bergen County (N.J.). County Planning Board |
Publisher | |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 1947 |
Genre | Bergen County (N.J.) |
ISBN |
Preliminary Overall Economic Development Plan for Passaic County, New Jersey
Title | Preliminary Overall Economic Development Plan for Passaic County, New Jersey PDF eBook |
Author | Passaic County Area Redevelopment Board |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Passaic County (N.J.) |
ISBN |
The Future of Middlesex County
Title | The Future of Middlesex County PDF eBook |
Author | Regional Plan Association (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Regional planning |
ISBN |
The Future of Passenger Rail
Title | The Future of Passenger Rail PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation |
Publisher | |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Federal aid to transportation |
ISBN |
History of Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey
Title | History of Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1150 |
Release | 1882 |
Genre | Bergen County (N.J.) |
ISBN |
A Consumers' Republic
Title | A Consumers' Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Lizabeth Cohen |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 578 |
Release | 2008-12-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307555364 |
In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life. Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the American Dream. Material goods came to embody the promise of America, and the power of consumers to purchase everything from vacuum cleaners to convertibles gave rise to the power of citizens to purchase political influence and effect social change. Yet despite undeniable successes and unprecedented affluence, mass consumption also fostered economic inequality and the fracturing of society along gender, class, and racial lines. In charting the complex legacy of our “Consumers’ Republic” Lizabeth Cohen has written a bold, encompassing, and profoundly influential book.