Mary C. McComb

Great Depression and the Middle Class (eBook, ePUB)

Experts, Collegiate Youth and Business Ideology, 1929-1941

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While many historians have contended that America took a leftward turn during the economically turbulent 1930s, McComb demonstrates that college students adopted the language of the marketplace, the logic of capitalism, and the process of self-commodification to make sense of their situation and to erect social barriers to protect a threatened middle-class status.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135526870
• Artikelnr.: 39909135

Autorenporträt

Mary C. McComb received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the George Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Why Are We Here? How Do We Sell it? Life on Campus
1930-1934 3. Ritual
Tradition and Standardization
1931-1935 4. Rating and Dating
1935-1940 5. Romanticism and Fatalism: Compassionate Marriage and Its Discontents
1935-1940. Conclusion