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: Kennedy David M. Название: Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 ISBN: 0195144031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195144031 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 22170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities.
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.
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: 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: Weinberg Gerhard L Название: World War II: A Very Short Introduction ISBN: 019968877X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199688777 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this Very Short Introduction, the eminent scholar Gerhard L. Weinberg explores one of the most important events in history. Examining the origins, course, and impact of the World War II - through both the soldiers and the ordinary citizens who lived through it - he considers the long-lasting impact it continues to have around the world.
Автор: Webb Mike Название: From Downing Street to the Trenches: First-Hand Accounts from the Great War, 1914-1916 ISBN: 1851243933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781851243938 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 10560.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. 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.
Автор: Buchanan Название: American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II ISBN: 1107044146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107044142 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 95030.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book argues that the United States had a powerful and sustained grand strategic approach to the countries of the Mediterranean during World War II and that, under the active leadership of Franklin Roosevelt, it attained substantial wartime and post-war advantage by pursuing this course.
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.
Автор: Lary Название: China`s Civil War ISBN: 1107678269 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107678262 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 25350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The first social history in English of China`s Civil War, 1945-9, which brought the Chinese Communist Party to power. Surveying a period of intense upheaval and chaos, it shows how the Communist Party succeeded in overthrowing the Nationalist government to bring political and social revolution to China.
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: 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
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