Thomas Bender
Autore di A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History
Sull'Autore
Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at New York University
Opere di Thomas Bender
New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time (1987) 78 copie
The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation (1992) 72 copie
Daedalus, Winter 1997: American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines (1997) — A cura di — 34 copie
Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States (1992) 33 copie
Opere correlate
Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America (1986) — Consulting Editor, series, alcune edizioni — 174 copie
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- Opere
- 20
- Opere correlate
- 6
- Utenti
- 655
- Popolarità
- #38,517
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 41
- Lingue
- 2
“New York today has become such a racially and class divided city that it takes some effort to recall the essentially working and lower-middle class character of the city in the first half of the twentieth century.” He might have added economically divided, but this book was published in 2002 when the distinctions may not have been as sharp as they are today. He decries the homogenization of Times Square: “The bright signs remind me not of older New York but rather of the new Seoul.”
Bender makes a case for the city as “a center of difference” and maybe the only city in the U.S. able to “stand against the rising tide of privatization, residential isolation, intolerance toward difference, and the substitution of consumerism for politics.” He believes the challenge is for New York City to “confront the present and reinvent a metropolitan public that will in and of itself sustain a vital culture of creativity and a politics of justice.”… (altro)