A companion to American cultural history / edited by Karen Halttunen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Halttunen, Karen, 1951-

Series:

Blackwell companions to American history.

Blackwell companions to American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Civilization--Study and teaching (Higher).

United States.

United States--Civilization--Historiography.

United States--Study and teaching (Higher).

United States--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (478 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2008.

Language Note:

English

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.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

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

Part III: The Twentieth Century 13. Consumer Culture and Mass Culture; 14. Modernism; 15. Politics and Culture in the 1930's and 1940's; 16. The 1950's and 1960's; 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 History 28. Religious History and the Cultural Turn; 29. Political History and the Tool of Culture; 30. The Cultural History of Foreign Relations; Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611318826

9781782684152

1782684158

9781281318824

1281318825

9781405180306

1405180307

9780470691762

047069176X

9780470691090

0470691093

OCLC:

476169323