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workshop reflections

Summer Institute:

Between the Wars

Cohen, Lizabeth, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago,(Cambridge 1991)

Curtis, James, Mind’s Eye, Mind’s Truth: FSA Photographs Reconsidered (Phila., PA 1989)

Glickman, Lawrence, Consumer Society in American history, a Reader, Ithaca, NY 1999) especially Glickman’s introduction

Kennedy, David, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, (NY 2001)

Kennedy, David, Over Here: The First World War and American Society, (NY 1982)

Lears, T.J. Jackson, Fables of Abundance, (NY 1998)

Levine, Lawrence, “American Culture and the great Depression” and “the Historian and the Icon” in Levine, The Unpredictable Past (NY 1993)

Marchand, Roland, Advertising the American Dream (Berkeley, CA 1986)

McGovern, Charles, and Susan Strasser eds., Getting and Spending (Cambridge 1998), esp. Charles McGovern, “Consumption and Citizenship in the United States,” and Roland Marchand, “Customer Research as Public Relations: General Motors in the 1930s.”

Susan, Warren, Culture as History (NY 1984) esp. Chapters 7-10, and 14

Websites

American Memory, Library of Congress, America from the great Depression to World War Two, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

American Memory, Library of Congress, Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html

Post 1945

Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities, (NY 1991)

Barber, Benjamin, Jihad Vs McWorld, (NY 1996)

Cohen, Lizabeth, A Consumer’s Republic, (NY 2001)

Englehardt, Tom, The End of Victory Culture (Amherst, MA 1998)

Frank, Thomas, One Market Under God, (NY 2001)

Fukayama, Francis, The End of History and the Last Man, (NY 1993)

Held, David, and Anthony McGrew eds., Global Transformation Reader (NY 2003)

Kazin, Michael, The Populist Persuasion, (Ithaca, NY 1998)

Kettner, James, The Development of American Citizenship, (Chapel Hill, NC 1979)

Stephenson, Neil, Snowcrash, (NY 2000)

Websites

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