In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 grew from forty-five to seventy-two years. Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic analysis, "The Rise and Fall of American Growth" provides an in-depth account of this momentous era. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end?
Gordon challenges the view that economic growth can or will continue unabated, and he demonstrates that the life-altering scale of innovations between 1870 and 1970 can't be repeated. He contends that the nation's productivity growth, which has already slowed to a crawl, will be further held back by the vexing headwinds of rising inequality, stagnating education, an aging population, and the rising debt of college students and the federal government. Gordon warns that the younger generation may be the first in American history that fails to exceed their parents' standard of living, and that rather than depend on the great advances of the past, we must find new solutions to overcome the challenges facing us.
A critical voice in the debates over economic stagnation, "The Rise and Fall of American Growth" is at once a tribute to a century of radical change and a harbinger of tougher times to come.
Автор: Ferro, Marc Название: Great war 1914-1918 ISBN: 0415267358 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415267359 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 2448.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A landmark history of the war that firmly places the First World War in the context of imperialism and gives due weight to the role of non-Europeans in the conflict.
Название: The Cold War and the United States Information Agency ISBN: 0521142830 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521142830 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5702.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides an exhaustive account of the United States Information Agency - an essential element of American foreign policy during the Cold War.
Автор: Das Название: The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War ISBN: 1107692954 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107692954 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3960.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This Companion offers a major re-examination of the poetry of the First World War in English at the start of the war`s centennial commemoration. It provides historical and critical contexts, fresh readings of the important soldier-poets, and investigative analysis of the war poetry of women, civilians, Anglo-American modernists and others.
Описание: Presents a devastating new perspective on the Greatest Generation and the liberation of France, one in which the US military use the lure of easy, sexually available French women to sell soldiers on the invasion, thus unleashing a "tsunami of male lust" among the war-weary GIs.
Автор: Peri Alexis Название: The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad ISBN: 0674971558 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674971554 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4269.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The German blockade of Leningrad lasted 872 days and cost almost a million civilian lives-one of the longest, deadliest sieges in modern history. Drawing on 125 unpublished diaries written by individuals from all walks of life, Alexis Peri tells the tragic, intimate story of how citizens struggled to make sense of a world collapsing around them.
Автор: McMeekin Sean Название: Russian Origins of the First World War ISBN: 0674062108 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674062108 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3635.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Patrick O. Cohrs Название: The Unfinished Peace after World War I ISBN: 0521723434 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521723435 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Patrick O. Cohrs presents a revisionist account of the role of British and American efforts to forge a stable Euro-Atlantic peace order between 1919 and the rise of Hitler, arguing that this order was founded through the London reparations settlement of 1924 and the Locarno security pact of 1925.
Автор: Raleigh, Donald J. Название: Experiencing Russia`s civil war : ISBN: 0691113203 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691113203 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 8712.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Presents the comprehensive history of the total experience of the Russian Civil War. Focusing on the key Volga city of Saratov and the surrounding region, this book shows how the experience of civil war embedded itself into both the people`s and the state`s outlook and behavior.
Описание: A team of some of the world`s most distinguished First World War historians chart the causes, course, and profound political and human consequences of a conflict that changed the world
Описание: Why did Asquith take Britain to war in 1914? What did educated young men believe their role should be? What was it like to fly over the Somme battlefield? How could a trench on the front line be `the safest place`? These fascinating contemporary papers paint a highly personal and immediate picture of the war as it happened.
Описание: Reconceptualizes the historical experience of the Soviet Union from a perspective, that of World War II. Breaking with the conventional interpretation that views World War II as a post-revolutionary addendum, this book situates this event at the crux of the development of the Soviet - not just the Stalinist - system.
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