Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781400843787
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1400843782
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1299987591
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9780691130415
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9781299987593
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0691130418
Series Statement:
Politics and society in twentieth-century America
Content:
""How much does it cost?"" We think of this question as one that preoccupies the nation's shoppers, not its statesmen. But, as Pocketbook Politics dramatically shows, the twentieth-century American polity in fact developed in response to that very consumer concern. In this groundbreaking study, Meg Jacobs demonstrates how pocketbook politics provided the engine for American political conflict throughout the twentieth century. From Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon, national politics turned on public anger over the high cost of living. Beginning with th.
Content:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Economic Citizenship in the Twentieth Century; PART I. THE HIGH COST OF LIVING AND THE RISE OF POCKETBOOK POLITICS, 1900-1930; Chapter One: From the Bargain Basement to the Bargaining Table, 1900-1917; Chapter Two: Business without a Buyer, 1917-1930; PART II. PURCHASING POWER TO THE PEOPLE,1930-1940; Chapter Three: The New Deal and the Problem of Prices, 1930-1935; Chapter Four: The New Deal and the Problem of Wages, 1935-1940; PART III. THE EVILS OF INFLATION IN WAR AND PEACE, 1940-1960
Content:
Chapter Five: The Consumer Goes to War, 1940-1946Chapter Six: Pocketbook Politics in an Age of Inflation, 1946-1960; Epilogue: Back to Bargain Hunting; Notes; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Originally published: 2005
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691130415
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Jacobs, Meg, 1969 - Pocketbook politics Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2007 ISBN 0691130418
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691130415
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0691086648
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jacobs, Meg, 1969- Pocketbook politics
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
USA
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Einkommensverteilung
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Geschichte 1900-1960
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USA
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Kaufkraft
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Lebenshaltungskosten
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Geschichte 1900-1960
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