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  • A Destiny of Choice?

    New Directions in American Consumer History

    In the twentieth century, Americans thought of the United States as a land of opportunity and equality. To what extent and for whom this was true was, of course, a matter of debate, however especially during the Cold War, many Americans clung to the patriotic conviction that America was the land of the free. At the same time, another national ideal emerged that was far less contentious, that ... Leer más

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  • Auto Mechanics

    Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America

    de Kevin L. Borg ...
    Series series Studies in Industry and Society
    The history of automobiles is not just the story of invention, manufacturing, and marketing; it is also a story of repair. Auto Mechanics opens the repair shop to historical study—for the first time—by tracing the emergence of a dirty, difficult, and important profession.Kevin L. Borg's study spans a century of automotive technology—from the horseless carriage of the late nineteenth century to the ... Leer más

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  • The Rise and Fall of American Growth

    The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War

    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
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  • Driving Honda

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    How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong

    de Robert Bryce ...
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  • They Made America

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