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The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the
structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced
societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell's major
books-The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial
Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
(1976)-became hotly debated frameworks for understanding the era
when they were published. In Defining the Age, Paul Starr and
Julian E. Zelizer bring together a group of distinguished
contributors to consider how well Bell's ideas captured their
historical moment and continue to provide profound insights into
today's world. Wide-ranging essays demonstrate how Bell's writing
has informed thinking about subjects such as the history of
socialism, the roots of the radical right, the emerging
postindustrial society, and the role of the university. The book
also examines Bell's intellectual trajectory and distinctive
political stance. Calling himself "a socialist in economics, a
liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture," he resisted
being pigeon-holed, especially as a neoconservative. Defining the
Age features essays from historians Jenny Andersson, David A. Bell,
Michael Kazin, and Margaret O'Mara; sociologist Steven Brint; media
scholar Fred Turner; and political theorists Jan-Werner Muller and
Stefan Eich. While differing in their judgments, they agree on one
premise: Bell's ideas deserve the kind of nuanced and serious
attention that they finally receive in this book.
The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the
structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced
societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell's major
books-The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial
Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
(1976)-became hotly debated frameworks for understanding the era
when they were published. In Defining the Age, Paul Starr and
Julian E. Zelizer bring together a group of distinguished
contributors to consider how well Bell's ideas captured their
historical moment and continue to provide profound insights into
today's world. Wide-ranging essays demonstrate how Bell's writing
has informed thinking about subjects such as the history of
socialism, the roots of the radical right, the emerging
postindustrial society, and the role of the university. The book
also examines Bell's intellectual trajectory and distinctive
political stance. Calling himself "a socialist in economics, a
liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture," he resisted
being pigeon-holed, especially as a neoconservative. Defining the
Age features essays from historians Jenny Andersson, David A. Bell,
Michael Kazin, and Margaret O'Mara; sociologist Steven Brint; media
scholar Fred Turner; and political theorists Jan-Werner Muller and
Stefan Eich. While differing in their judgments, they agree on one
premise: Bell's ideas deserve the kind of nuanced and serious
attention that they finally receive in this book.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American
History, The Social Transformation of American Medicine is a
landmark history of the American health care system, examining how
the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government
programs has evolved over the last two centuries. Beginning in 1730
and coming up to the present day, renowned sociologist Paul Starr
traces the transformation of our national health care system into a
private corporate medical institution that dominates the field and
threatens the sovereignty of the medical profession. In this new
and revised edition, Paul Starr will bring his research up-to-date
in a substantial 5,000 word epilogue.
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Anyone who travels California's byways sees the many faces of
agriculture. A huge entwined business, farming and ranching are the
state's dominant land use. Yet few Californians understand what
animals and crops are raised or how agriculture reflects our
relationship with nature. This fascinating and gorgeously
illustrated field guide gathers essential information about
agriculture and its environmental context, and answers the
perennial question posed by California travelers: "What is that,
and why is it growing here?" Paul F. Starrs's lively text explores
the full range of the state's agriculture, deftly balancing
agribusiness triumphalism with the pride of boutique producers,
sketching meanwhile the darker shadows that can envelop California
farming. Documented with diverse maps and Peter Goin's insightful
photographs, "A Field Guide to California Agriculture" captures the
industry's energy and ingenuity and its wildly diverse iconography,
from the mysteries of forbidden crops (like marijuana) to the
majesties of scale in food production.
America's leading role in today's information revolution may seem
simply to reflect its position as the world's dominant economy and
most powerful state. But by the early nineteenth century, when the
United States was neither a world power nor a primary center of
scientific discovery, it was already a leader in communications-in
postal service and newspaper publishing, then in development of the
telegraph and telephone networks, later in the whole repertoire of
mass communications.In this wide-ranging social history of American
media, from the first printing press to the early days of radio,
Paul Starr shows that the creation of modern communications was as
much the result of political choices as of technological invention.
With his original historical analysis, Starr examines how the
decisions that led to a state-run post office and private
monopolies on the telegraph and telephone systems affected a
developing society. He illuminates contemporary controversies over
freedom of information by exploring such crucial formative issues
as freedom of the press, intellectual property, privacy, public
access to information, and the shaping of specific technologies and
institutions. America's critical choices in these areas, Starr
argues, affect the long-run path of development in a society and
have had wide social, economic, and even military ramifications.
The Creation of the Media not only tells the history of the media
in a new way; it puts America and its global influence into a new
perspective.
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