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Hoboken : Wiley, 2008

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A COMPANION TO AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Early America; 1. Cultural Encounters: Americans and Europeans; 2. Cultures of Colonial Settlement; 3. British America in the Eighteenth Century; 4. The Revolution and the Early Republic; Part II: The Nineteenth Century; 5. Antebellum Cultural History; 6. Religion and Reform; 7. Black Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; 8. The Civil War in American Culture; 9. The West; 10. The Gilded Age; 11. Immigration and Ethnic Culture; 12. Cultural Watersheds in FIN DE SIÈCLE America

Part III: The Twentieth Century13. Consumer Culture and Mass Culture; 14. Modernism; 15. Politics and Culture in the 1930s and 1940s; 16. The 1950s and 1960s; 17. The Globalization of American Culture; Part IV: Thematic and Methodological Approaches; 18. Cultural Theory, Dialogue, and American Cultural History; 19. Situating Visual Culture; 20. Material Cultures; 21. Performance and Display; 22. Gender and Sexuality; 23. Race and Ethnicity; 24. Popular Culture; 25. History and Memory; Part V: The Cultural Turn in Other Fields; 26. Culturalist Approaches to Intellectual History

27. The Impact of the Culture Concept on Social History28. Religious History and the Cultural Turn; 29. Political History and the Tool of Culture; 30. The Cultural History of Foreign Relations; Index

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Print version: A Companion to American Cultural History

978-1-118-79806-5

978-1-118-79806-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-0-470-69109-0 ( : 170.4 (NL))

NK 5270  | NQ 5310  | HR 1010      Ähnliche Literatur

E169.1 .C684 2008 ; E169.1

306.0973 ; 973

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A Companion to American Cultural History offers a historiographic overview of the scholarship, with special attention to the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and an assessment of where it is currently headed.30 essays explore the history of American culture at all analytic levelsWritten by scholarly experts well-versed in the questions and controversies that have activated interest in this burgeoning fieldPart of the authoritative Blackwell Companions to American History seriesProvides both a chronological and thematic approach: topics range from