People of plenty : economic abundance and the American character /

America has long been famous as a land of plenty, but we seldom realize how much the American people are a people of plenty-a people whose distinctive character has been shaped by economic abundance. In this important book, David M. Potter breaks new ground both in the study of this phenomenon and i...

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Front matter --
Introduction: History, the Behavioral Studies, and the Science of Man --
Acknowledgments --
Table of Contents --
I. The Historians and National Character --
II. The Behavioral Scientists and National Character --
111troduction to Part II --
III. The Nature of American Abundance --
IV. Abundance, Mobility, and Stalls --
V. Democracy and Abundance --
VI. Abundance and the Mission of America --
VII. Abundance and the Frontier Hypothesis --
VIII. The Institution of Abundance: Advertising --
IX. Abundance and the Formation of Character --
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1. Verfasser:
Potter, David Morris
Körperschaft:
American Council of Learned Societies
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1954.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
America has long been famous as a land of plenty, but we seldom realize how much the American people are a people of plenty-a people whose distinctive character has been shaped by economic abundance. In this important book, David M. Potter breaks new ground both in the study of this phenomenon and in his approach to the question of national character. He brings a fresh historical perspective to bear on the vital work done in this field by anthropologists, social psychologists, and psychoanalysts. "The rejection of hindsight, with the insistence on trying to see events from the point of view of the participants, was a governing theme with Potter. . . . This sounds like a truism. Watching him apply it however, is a revelation."-Walter Clemons, Newsweek "The best short book on national character I have seen . . . broadly based, closely reasoned, and lucidly written."-Karl W. Deutsch, Yale Review
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxv, 217 pages) : illustrations
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786612070129
9781282070127
1282070126
9780226676319
0226676315
Schlagworte:
National characteristics, American.
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