In this rigorous and challenging analysis of American postmodernity, Anthony Woodiwiss re-examines the political, economic and social life of the United States over the past 60 years. Exploring the rise and fall of modernism as a social ideology, he offers a distinctive and original interpretation of the unique experience of American modernity and the arrival of the postmodern world. The result is both a novel history of postwar America and a significant contribution to the idea of postmodernism as a social and cultural form. Postmodernity USA also carries lessons for the understanding of class, culture and politics in late industrial societies in general.
| ISBN: | 9780803987890 |
| Publication date: | 16th March 1993 |
| Author: | Anthony B Woodiwiss |
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas |