A Companion to American Cultural History

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-79806-5
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 891 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Halttunen, Karen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors viii

Introduction xi
Karen Halttunen

Part I Early America 1

1. Cultural Encounters: Americans and Europeans 3
Peter C. Mancall

2. Cultures of Colonial Settlement 17
Carla Gardina Pestana

3. British America in the Eighteenth Century 32
Karin Wulf

4. The Revolution and the Early Republic 46
Catherine E. Kelly

Part II The Nineteenth Century 63

5. Antebellum Cultural History 65
James W. Cook

6. Religion and Reform 79
Lewis Perry

7. Black Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 95
Demetrius L. Eudell

8. The Civil War in American Culture 110
Alice Fahs

9. The West 125
Ann Fabian

10. The Gilded Age 139
Scott A. Sandage

11. Immigration and Ethnic Culture 154
Hasia R. Diner

12. Cultural Watersheds in Fin de Siècle America 166
Janet M. Davis

Part III The Twentieth Century 181

13. Consumer Culture and Mass Culture 183
Charles F. McGovern

14. Modernism 198
Joel Dinerstein

15. Politics and Culture in the 1930s and 1940s 214
Julia L. Foulkes

16. The 1950s and 1960s 230
Daniel Belgrad

17. The Globalization of American Culture 246
Petra Goedde

Part IV Thematic and Methodological Approaches 263

18. Cultural Theory, Dialogue, and American Cultural History 265
George Lipsitz

19. Situating Visual Culture 279
Sally M. Promey

20. Material Cultures 295
J. Ritchie Garrison

21. Performance and Display 311
M. Alison Kibler

22. Gender and Sexuality 327
Jane H. Hunter

23. Race and Ethnicity 341
Eric Avila

24. Popular Culture 356
Nan Enstad

25. History and Memory 371
David Glassberg

Part V The Cultural Turn in Other Fields 381

26. Culturalist Approaches to Intellectual History 383
Casey Nelson Blake

27. The Impact of the Culture Concept on Social History 396
Lawrence B. Glickman

28. Religious History and the Cultural Turn 406
Leigh E. Schmidt

29. Political History and the Tool of Culture 416
Joanne B. Freeman

30. The Cultural History of Foreign Relations 425
Andrew J. Rotter

Index 437

Über Autor(innen)

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).