| Description |
xiii, 461 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to American history
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Blackwell companions to American history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cultural encounters : Americans and Europeans / Peter C. Mancall -- Cultures of colonial settlement / Carla Gardina Pestana -- British America in the eighteenth century / Karin Wulf -- Revolution and the early republic / Catherine E. Kelly -- Antebellum cultural history / James W. Cook -- Religion and reform / Lewis Perry -- Black culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Demetrius L. Eudell -- Civil War in American culture / Alice Fahs -- West / Ann Fabian -- Gilded Age / Scott A. Sandage -- Immigration and ethnic culture / Hasia R. Diner -- Cultural watersheds in Fin de siècle America / Janet M. Davis -- Consumer culture and mass culture / Charles F. McGovern -- Modernism / Joel Dinerstein -- Politics and culture in the 1930s and 1940s / Julia L. Foulkes -- The 1950s and 1960s / Daniel Belgrad -- Globalization of American culture / Petra Goedde -- Cultural theory, dialogue, and American cultural history / George Lipsitz -- Situating visual culture / Sally M. Promey -- Material cultures / J. Ritchie Garrison -- Performance and display / M. Alison Kibler -- Gender and sexuality / Jane H. Hunter -- Race and ethnicity / Eric Avila -- Popular culture / Nan Enstad -- History and memory / David Glassberg -- Culturalist approaches to intellectual history / Casey Nelson Blake -- Impact of the culture concept on social history / Lawrence B. Glickman -- Religious history and the cultural turn / Leigh E. Schmidt -- Political history and the tool of culture / Joanne B. Freeman -- Cultural history of foreign relations / Andrew J. Rotter |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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United States. |
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Civilization. |
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United States -- Civilization -- Historiography.
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Historiography. |
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United States -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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United States -- Historiography.
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| Added Author |
Halttunen, Karen, 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Companion to American cultural history. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2008 (OCoLC)654845087 |
| ISBN |
9780631235668 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0631235663 hardcover alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
100448988 |
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