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Companion to American Cultural History

Karen Halttunen (Herausgeber)

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480 Seiten
2008
Wiley-Blackwell (Hersteller)
978-0-470-69176-2 (ISBN)
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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 levels * Written by scholarly experts well-versed in the questions and controversies that have activated interest in this burgeoning field * Part of the authoritative Blackwell Companions to American History series * Provides both a chronological and thematic approach: topics range from British America in the Eighteenth Century to the modern day globalization of American Culture; thematic approaches include gender and sexuality and popular culture

Karen Halttunen is Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, and former president of the American Studies Association. She is the author of Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870 (1986) and Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination (2000).

Notes on Contributors. Introduction (Karen Halttunen). Part I: Early America. 1. Cultural Encounters: Americans and Europeans (Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California). 2. Cultures of Colonial Settlement (Carla Gardina Pestana, Miami University). 3. British America in the Eighteenth Century (Karin Wulf, The College of William and Mary). 4. The Revolution and the Early Republic (Catherine E. Kelly, University of Oklahoma). Part II: The Nineteenth Century. 5. Antebellum Cultural History (James W. Cook, University of Michigan). 6. Religion and Reform (Lewis Perry, St. Louis University). 7. African American Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Demetrius L. Eudell, Wesleyan University). 8. The Civil War in American Culture (Alice Fahs, University of California, Irvine). 9. The West (Ann Fabian, Rutgers University). 10. The Gilded Age (Scott A. Sandage, Carnegie Mellon University). 11. Immigration and Ethnic Culture (Hasia R. Diner, New York University). 12. Cultural Watersheds in Fin de Siecle America (Janet M. Davis, University of Texas, Austin). Part III: The Twentieth Century. 13. Consumer Culture and Mass Culture (Charles F. McGovern, The College of William and Mary). 14. Modernism (Joel Dinerstein, Tulane University). 15. Politics and Culture in the 1930s and 1940s (Julia L. Foulkes, The New School). 16. The 1950s and 1960s (Daniel Belgrad, University of South Florida). 17. The Globalization of American Culture (Petra Goedde, Temple University). Part IV: Thematic and Methodological Approaches. 18. Cultural Theory, Dialogue, and American Cultural History (George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Barbara). 19. Situating Visual Culture (Sally M. Promey, University of Maryland, College Park). 20. Material Cultures (J. Ritchie Garrison, University of Delaware). 21. Performance and Display (M. Alison Kibler, Franklin & Marshall College). 22. Gender and Sexuality (Jane H. Hunter, Lewis and Clark College). 23. Race and Ethnicity (Eric Avila, University of California, Los Angeles). 24. Popular Culture (Nan Enstad, University of Wisconsin, Madison). 25. History and Memory (David Glassberg, University of Massachusetts, Amherst). Part V: The Cultural Turn in Other Fields. 26. Culturalist Approaches to Intellectual History (Casey Nelson Blake, Columbia University). 27. The Impact of the Culture Concept on Social History (Lawrence B. Glickman, University of South Carolina). 28. Religious History and the Cultural Turn (Leigh E. Schmidt, Princeton University). 29. Political History and the Tool of Culture (Joanne B. Freeman, Yale University). 30. The Cultural History of Foreign Relations (Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate University).

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.3.2008
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 184 x 255 mm
Gewicht 996 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
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ISBN-10 0-470-69176-X / 047069176X
ISBN-13 978-0-470-69176-2 / 9780470691762
Zustand Neuware
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