Miscellaneous
The end of the Cold War inaugurates a new epoch: With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States is poised to become the first uncontested global imperial power in the history of humankind. The American victory over the Soviets also establishes capitalism as a global system, arguably a more important development than the emergence of the US as the world’s only global superpower. With the sudden, if unsurprising, collapse of the Soviet Union underway, America finds itself searching for the meaning of it all as the decade opens. A grand theory emerges to become the leading theory among the political elite: The American victory was not simply the end of the war but the end of history itself. The theory, offered by Francis Fukuyama and echoed by President Bush, announces that the “end of history” is nothing short of the eventual Americanization of the world. And as the 1990s opens, the age of the American shopping mall is at its height. Please support Things Done Changed on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/thingsdonechanged