Sentences with phrase «postwar economic boom»

What inspired the «green activism» of the 1970s was not as much pretty pictures of «Gaia» as much as it was the oil shock, and the other economic and Cold War crises that developed as the postwar economic boom turned to bust.

Europe was rebuilt thanks to the Marshall Plan, which was funded by the US during its own postwar economic boom.

One persuasive theory proposed by economist Richard Easterlin is that the postwar period witnessed a combination of two basic forces which encouraged optimism and relaxed earlier constraints on marriage and having children: an unprecedented demand for goods and services otherwise known as the postwar economic boom; and an accompanying shortage of labor.

Since the end of the postwar economic boom, new strategies have been used to stimulate consumption — especially strategies aimed at American youth that project sexual activity as instant fulfillment and violence as the locus of machismo identity.

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His early works in the 60s, painted from images sourced from the media, were parodies of the then - ascendant international styles of American Pop Art and the postwar culture and economic boom in West Germany at the time.

Arte Povera came of age in the context of the «Italian miracle» economic boom and the subsequent student and workers revolts of 1968, motivated by an urge to revolt not only against the primacy of painting in the postwar period, but also against the emerging consumer culture.

In the postwar period, law business boomed as Canada rode an economic expansion that lasted nearly a quarter of a century.