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People of Plenty
David M. Potter
其他書名
Economic Abundance and the American Character
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2009-02-15
主題
History / United States / 20th Century
History / United States / General
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
ISBN
0226676315
9780226676319
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yLT95KZEsWEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
America has long been famous as a land of plenty, but we seldom realize how much the American people are a
people of plenty
—a people whose distinctive character has been shaped by economic abundance. In this important book, David M. Potter breaks new ground both in the study of this phenomenon and in his approach to the question of national character. He brings a fresh historical perspective to bear on the vital work done in this field by anthropologists, social psychologists, and psychoanalysts.
"The rejection of hindsight, with the insistence on trying to see events from the point of view of the participants, was a governing theme with Potter. . . . This sounds like a truism. Watching him apply it however, is a revelation."—Walter Clemons,
Newsweek
"The best short book on national character I have seen . . . broadly based, closely reasoned, and lucidly written."—Karl W. Deutsch,
Yale Review