Author: Elana Levine
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: television, console, ing, passions, american, 1970s, sex, new, sexual, culture, wallowing
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-12-19
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0822339196
ISBN-13: 9780822339199
Passengers disco dancing in The Love Boat’s Acapulco Lounge. A young girl walking by a marquee advertising Deep Throat in the made-for-TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. A frustrated housewife borrowing Orgasm and You from her local library in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Commercial television of the 1970s was awash with references to sex. In the wake of the sexual revolution and the women’s liberation and gay rights movements, significant changes were rippling through American culture. In representing—or not representing—those changes, broadcast television provided a crucial
Author: Philip Scranton
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: economy, society, modern, south, 1970s, 1940s, wave, southern, industrialization, second
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2001-09-25
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0820322180
ISBN-13: 9780820322186
Though it had helped define the New South era, the first wave of regional industrialization had clearly lost momentum even before the Great Depression. These nine original case studies look at how World War II and its aftermath transformed the economy, culture, and politics of the South.From perspectives grounded in geography, law, history, sociology, and economics, several contributors look at southern industrial sectors old and new: aircraft and defense, cotton textiles, timber and pulp, carpeting, oil refining and petrochemicals, and automobiles. One essay challenges the perception that sou
Authors:Bo Särlvik, Ivor Crewe,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: trends, 1970s, electoral, victory, dealignment, conservative, decade
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 2010-02-25
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0521136938
ISBN-13: 9780521136938
In what ways did the nature of party support, and the attitudes of the electorate to the parties, change in the 1970s? How volatile was the British electorate? Was the two-party system breaking down? What were the causes of the Conservative triumph in 1979? Basing their work on national surveys conducted by the British Election Study at the University of Essex after the elections of February and October 1974 and May 1979, Bo Särlvik and Ivor Crewe examine the whole range of issues which formed the British political climate in this period. This 1983 book’s focus is on the election of May
Author: Marlee Richards
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Keywords: america, century, twentieth, decades, 1970s
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-09
List price: $38.60
ISBN-10: 082253438X
ISBN-13: 9780822534389
What were Americans doing in the 1970s? Letting their hair grow, disco dancing, and following self-help gurus. Meanwhile, their faith in government faltered as they watched images of the Vietnam War and dishonesty in the White House. The 1970s saw the flower children of the 1960s growing up. Protests against war, discrimination, and pollution developed into new organizations and laws. Religious groups became politically active. It was a time for Americans in all walks of life to find their voices. The decade’s notables included President Richard Nixon, civil rights leader Harvey Milk, fe
Authors:Dorothy Hoobler, Tom Hoobler,
Publisher: Millbrook Pre
Keywords: kids, century, arguments, 1970s
Number of Pages: 158
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $22.90
ISBN-10: 0761316078
ISBN-13: 9780761316077
America’s involvement in Vietnam adds to the seemingly constant arguing in the Vivante family, whose cousins are among a group of people who have dropped out to live in a commune in Arizona.
Author: Catherine Gourley
Publisher: Twenty First Century Books
Keywords: women, issues, twentieth, century, images, 1970s, girls, perceptions, material, 1990s
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2007-08-15
List price: $38.60
ISBN-10: 0822568063
ISBN-13: 9780822568063
Author: Michael Scott Christofferson
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: french, monographs, studies, berghahn, moment, intellectuals, antitotalitarian, 1970s
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2004-06-22
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1571814272
ISBN-13: 9781571814272
" . . . an exceptionally fine text - one that could only have been written by an author mercifully free, for whatever reason of the phobias and philias about French intellectual life of previous generations." - New Left Review "This book is clearly an indispensable resource for historians of twentieth-century France and French intellectual life, and a fine resource for anyone interested in a political sociology of the intellectual. Its fundamental thesis concerning the political sources of the antitotalitarian moment in the discourse of direct democracy and the electoral opposition to the PC
