Our business civilization (Registro nro. 116732)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | E151 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Adams, James Truslow, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1878-1949 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Our business civilization |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-05-04 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Bob Taylor, Carla Foust, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Our Business Civilization: Some Aspects of American Culture" by James Truslow Adams is a collection of cultural essays written in the late 1920s. The book explores specific facets—especially the more troubling—of American society, focusing on the pervasive influence of business ideals on national culture. Rather than presenting a complete overview, Adams concentrates on examining how business values shape America’s social, ethical, and intellectual life. The opening of the book, including the preface and initial chapters, clarifies that the essays are revised versions of previously published magazine pieces, intentionally focusing on what the author sees as problematic tendencies within American society. Adams introduces the notion that, unlike European nations with multiple sources of social authority, America’s cultural life has become overwhelmingly dominated by business men and their pursuit of profit. He systematically contrasts this with countries like England, where older institutions—aristocracy, the church, and the professions—still mitigate the influence of commerce. The early chapters critically analyze the consequences of this business-centric civilization, such as narrowed social values, increased materialism, erosion of traditional professions, escalating costs of living, and dissolving ethical standards. Adams contends that while business has brought certain material benefits, the dominance of its ideals has undermined broader cultural and spiritual well-being, fostering a society more concerned with profit, consumption, and external badges of success than with intellectual or artistic pursuits. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | unknown: Albert & Charles Boni, 1929 |
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| Uncontrolled term | National characteristics, American |
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| Uncontrolled term | United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945 |
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| Uncontrolled term | United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.32106000562451">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.32106000562451</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76007">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76007</a> |
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