America in the seventies

Book 2004

The seventies witnessed economic decline in America, coupled with a series of foreign policy failures, events that created an air of unease and uncertainty. This volume examines the ways in which Americans responded to a changing world and sought to redefine themselves.

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Nineteen seventies

United States History 1969-

United States Social conditions 1960-1980

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Culture America CultureAmerica

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ISBN:

9780700613274

Description:

vi, 246 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Torch had fallen / David Farber
It makes you want to believe in the country : celebrating the Bicentennial in an age of limits / Christopher Capozzola
Affirming and disaffirming actions : remaking race in the 1970s / Eric Porter
"Vigorously left, right, and center" : the crosscurrents of working-class America in the 1970s / Jefferson Cowie
She "can bring home the bacon" : negotiating gender in the 1970s / Beth Bailey
"Adults only" : the construction of an erotic city in New York during the 1970s / Peter Braunstein
America's Poseidon adventure : a nation in existential despair / William Graebner
Cutback : skate and punk at the far end of the American century / Michael Nevin Willard
Culture, technology, and the cult of tech in the 1970s / Timothy Moy

LCCN:

2004001998

Control Number:

3262215

Other Authors:

Bailey, Beth L., 1957- editor
Farber, David, 1956- editor

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