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Part of the "Eyewitness History" series, this volume provides many accounts of the 1990s - including diary entries, letters, speeches, and newspaper accounts. Ranging from the still-evolving "new world order" to the changing demographic values and practices of the US, it explores the many factors that have helped transform America's identity

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration: Puerto Rico's Place in the Caribbean -- Chapter 1. Island Paradox: Puerto Rico in the 1990s -- Chapter 2. Population Growth and Demographic Changes -- Chapter 3. Migration between Puerto Rico and the United States -- Chapter 4. The Socioeconomic Transformation: Income, Poverty, and Education -- Chapter 5. The Labor Market and the Unemployment Crisis -- Chapter 6. Immigration and the Population Born outside Puerto Rico -- Chapter 7. The Puerto Rican Population in the United States

Oil demand in the 1990s, George Kowalski -- A world energy outlook, Lowell C.Reed -- The energy demand impact of conservation technology, John Chesshire -- Non-OPEC crude production, Andrew Gordon -- Middle East oil supplies in the 1990s, Paul Stevens -- Transport costs and capacity adjustment in the tanker market, David Hawdon -- Oil prices - a conflict of views, Eric Price et al -- Changing oil price expectations, David Hawdon.

American Culture in the 1990s focuses on the dramatic cultural transformations of the last decade of the millennium. Lodged between the fall of Communism and the outbreak of the War on Terror, the 1990s was witness to America's expanding influence across the world but also a period of anxiety and social conflict. National traumas such as the Los Angeles riots, the Oklahoma City bombing and the impeachment of President Clinton lend an apocalyptic air to the decade, but the book looks beyond this to a wider context to identify new voices emerging in the nation. This is one of the first attempts to bring together developments taking place across a range of different fields: from Microsoft to the Internet, from blank fiction to gangsta rap, from abject art to new independent cinema, and from postfeminism to posthumanism. Students of American culture and general readers will find this a lively and illuminating introduction to a complex and immensely varied decade. Key Features 3 case studies per chapter featuring key texts, genres, writers and artists Chronology of 1990s American Culture Bibliographies for each chapter 10 black and white illustrations

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Case Studies -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology of 1990s American Culture -- Introduction: The Intellectual Context -- Chapter 1 Fiction and Poetry -- Chapter 2 Music and Radio -- Chapter 3 Film and Television -- Chapter 4 Art and Architecture -- Chapter 5 Digital Culture -- Conclusion: Towards a New Millennium -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Housing Policy in the 1990s explores the deluge of Conservative legislation of the late 1980s and examines what its effects will be during this decade and into the next century. The contributors discuss and clarify the main aims of the government re-structuring of social strategy and assess its effects on British housing