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: 16320.00 T 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: 38010.00 T 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: Yekelchyk Serhy Название: Stalin`s Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War ISBN: 0199378444 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199378449 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 54910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Being a good citizen under Stalin meant taking an active part in political rituals, such as elections, parades, festive meetings, political information sessions, and subscriptions to state bonds. Stalin`s Citizens shows how ordinary citizens came to embrace some parts of this everyday Stalinist politics and resist others.
Автор: Sanborn, Joshua A. Название: Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War & The Destruction of the Russian Empire ISBN: 0199642052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199642052 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 54910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A unique study which uses the collapse of Tsarist Russia and its consequences to argue that the events on the often-forgotten Eastern Front of WWI had a stronger impact on the outcome of the war than is usually accepted.
Автор: Peri Alexis Название: The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad ISBN: 0674971558 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674971554 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 28460.00 T 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: 24230.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Horn Название: The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II ISBN: 1107016363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107016361 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 103490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Did Ford SAF sabotage the German war effort by deliberately manufacturing fewer military vehicles than they were capable of as they claimed after the war? This book offers a fascinating account of how the company negotiated the conflicting demands of French, German and American authorities to thrive during the war.
Автор: Strachan Название: The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War ne pb ISBN: 0199663386 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199663385 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17610.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. 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
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: 26400.00 T 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.
Автор: Ruiz Название: The `Red Terror` and the Spanish Civil War ISBN: 1107054540 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107054547 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 115110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This study challenges the common view that extrajudicial executions in Republican Spain in July 1936 were the work of criminal or anarchist `uncontrollables`.
Автор: Chaliand Gerard Название: A Global History of War: From Assyria to the Twenty-First Century ISBN: 0520283619 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520283619 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 26400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Concentrates on the peoples and cultures who have determined how war is conducted and reveals the lasting historical consequences of combat, offering a picture of the major geopolitical and civilizational clashes that have rocked our common history and made us who we are today.
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