Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property
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Steve Fraser (Útgáfa: 0)
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In popular retellings of American history, capitalism generally doesn't feature much as part of the founding or development of the nation. Instead, it is alluded to in figurative terms as opportunity, entrepreneurial vigor, material abundance, and the seven-league boots of manifest destiny. ?In this collection of essays, Steve Fraser, the preeminent historian of American capitalism, sets the record straight, rewriting the arc of the American saga with class conflict center stage and mounting a serious challenge to the consoling fantasy of American exceptionalism.
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- Verso
- 9781788736718
- 9781788736701
- ePub
- 0
- Steve Fraser
- English
- 2019-09-24
- 100
- 10
- 10
Kaflar
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1: Snakes in the Garden: American Capitalism and Its Distempers
- 1. The Three Faces of Risk: An Excursion into the Cultural History of Wall Street
- 2. Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt
- 3. Locking Down an American Workforce: Prison Labor as the Past—and Future—of American “Free-Market” Capitalism
- 4. Uncle Sam Doesn’t Want You: America’s Reserve Army of Labor Marches Through Time
- 5. Making Disaster Pay: From the San Francisco Earthquake to Superstorm Sandy, How Capitalism Stacks the Deck on Disaster
- Part 2: The Ages of Capitalism
- 6. Two Gilded Ages
- 7. American Labor and the Great Depression
- 8. The Age of Acquiescence
- Part 3: Populist Plutocracy
- 9. The Limousine Liberal’s Family Tree
- 10. The Genie Grown Monstrous: How Donald Trump, the All-American Frankenstein, Devoured the GOP
- 11. Playing God: The Rebirth of Family Capitalism, or, How the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Sam Walton, Bill Gates, and Other Billionaires Are Undermining America
- Afterword: The Priest, the Commissar, and The Donald
- Notes
- Index