Sunbelt Capitalism - Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Tandy Shermer teaches history at Loyola University Chicago. She is coeditor (with Nelson Lichtenstein) of The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination, which is also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Klappentext Elizabeth Tandy Shermer teaches history at Loyola University Chicago. She is coeditor (with Nelson Lichtenstein) of The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination, which is also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Zusammenfassung Historian Elizabeth Tandy Shermer examines how Barry Goldwater and elite Phoenix businessmen used policy and federal funds to fashion a postwar "business climate!" setting off an interstate competition for investment that transformed American politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART I. DESERT Chapter 1. Colonial Prologue Chapter 2. Contested Recovery Chapter 3. The Business of War PART II. RECLAMATION Chapter 4. The Right to Rule Chapter 5. Grasstops Democracy Chapter 6. Forecasting the Business Climate Chapter 7. "Second War Between the States" PART III. SPRAWL Chapter 8. Industrial Phoenix Chapter 9. The Conspicuous Grasstops Chapter 10. "A Frankenstein's Monster" Epilogue. Whither Phoenix? List of Abbreviations Notes Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780812223477
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2347-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Politics and Culture in Modern; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries