Author: Carole Jeanne TronePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
National Communications Campaigns on Public Education, 1890-1945
Author: Carole Jeanne TroneDissertation Abstracts International
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ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Sold American
Author: Charles F. McGovernPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080787664X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
At the turn of the twentieth century, an emerging consumer culture in the United States promoted constant spending to meet material needs and develop social identity and self-cultivation. In Sold American, Charles F. McGovern examines the key players active in shaping this cultural evolution: advertisers and consumer advocates. McGovern argues that even though these two professional groups invented radically different models for proper spending, both groups propagated mass consumption as a specifically American social practice and an important element of nationality and citizenship. Advertisers, McGovern shows, used nationalist ideals, icons, and political language to define consumption as the foundation of the pursuit of happiness. Consumer advocates, on the other hand, viewed the market with a republican-inspired skepticism and fought commercial incursions on consumer independence. The result, says McGovern, was a redefinition of the citizen as consumer. The articulation of an "American Way of Life" in the Depression and World War II ratified consumer abundance as the basis of a distinct American culture and history.
America, History and Life
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
National War Agencies Appropriation Bill for 1945
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on DeficienciesPublisher:
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
National War Agencies Appropriation Bill for 1945
Author: United States. Congress. House. AppropriationsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1870
Book Description
Research in Education
Author: Resources in Education
Author: Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media
Author: Virginia BerridgePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134408560
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This book charts, and provides an analysis of, the development of a new view of 'the health of the public' and the influences which shaped it in the twentieth century, in particular in the post-WW2 years.
American Philanthropic Foundations
Author: David C. HammackPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253033071
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Once largely confined to the biggest cities in the mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes states, philanthropic foundations now play a significant role in nearly every state. Wide-ranging and incisive, the essays in American Philanthropic Foundations: Regional Difference and Change examine the origins, development, and accomplishments of philanthropic foundations in key cities and regions of the United States. Each contributor assesses foundation efforts to address social and economic inequalities, and to encourage cultural and creative life in their home regions and elsewhere. This fascinating and timely study of contemporary America's philanthropic foundations vividly illustrates foundations' commonalities and differences as they strive to address pressing public problems.