ISBN:
9781118798065
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (478 p)
Series Statement:
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History Ser
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to American history
Parallel Title:
Print version A Companion to American Cultural History
DDC:
306.0973
Keywords:
United States ; Civilization ; Historiography
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United States ; Civilization ; Study and teaching (Higher)
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United States ; Historiography
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United States ; Study and teaching (Higher)
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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