A Companion to American Cultural History

Copyright © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to American Cultural History

Editor(s): Karen Halttunen

Published Online: 10 MAR 2008

Print ISBN: 9780631235668

Online ISBN: 9780470691762

DOI: 10.1002/9780470691762

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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

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–x)

  2. Part I: Early America

    1. Chapter One

      Cultural Encounters: Americans and Europeans (pages 1–16)

      Peter C. Mancall

    2. Chapter Two

      Cultures of Colonial Settlement (pages 17–31)

      Carla Gardina Pestana

    3. Chapter Three

      British America in the Eighteenth Century (pages 32–45)

      Karin Wulf

    4. Chapter Four

      The Revolution and the Early Republic (pages 46–62)

      Catherine E. Kelly

  3. Part II: The Nineteenth Century

    1. Chapter Five

      Antebellum Cultural History (pages 63–78)

      James W. Cook

    2. Chapter Six

      Religion and Reform (pages 79–94)

      Lewis Perry

    3. Chapter Seven

      Black Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (pages 95–109)

      Demetrius L. Eudell

    4. Chapter Eight

      The Civil War in American Culture (pages 110–124)

      Alice Fahs

    5. Chapter Nine

      The West (pages 125–138)

      Ann Fabian

    6. Chapter Ten

      The Gilded Age (pages 139–153)

      Scott A. Sandage

    7. Chapter Eleven

      Immigration and Ethnic Culture (pages 154–165)

      Hasia R. Diner

    8. Chapter Twelve

      Cultural Watersheds in Fin de Siècle America (pages 166–180)

      Janet M. Davis

  4. Part III: The Twentieth Century

    1. Chapter Thirteen

      Consumer Culture and Mass Culture (pages 181–197)

      Charles F. McGovern

    2. Chapter Fourteen

      Modernism (pages 198–213)

      Joel Dinerstein

    3. Chapter Fifteen

      Politics and Culture in the 1930s and 1940s (pages 214–229)

      Julia L. Foulkes

    4. Chapter Sixteen

      The 1950s and 1960s (pages 230–245)

      Daniel Belgrad

    5. Chapter Seventeen

      The Globalization of American Culture (pages 246–262)

      Petra Goedde

  5. Part IV: Thematic and Methodological Approaches

    1. Chapter Eighteen

      Cultural Theory, Dialogue, and American Cultural History (pages 263–278)

      George Lipsitz

    2. Chapter Nineteen

      Situating Visual Culture (pages 279–294)

      Sally M. Promey

    3. Chapter Twenty

      Material Cultures (pages 295–310)

      J. Ritchie Garrison

    4. Chapter Twenty-One

      Performance and Display (pages 311–326)

      M. Alison Kibler

    5. Chapter Twenty-Two

      Gender and Sexuality (pages 327–340)

      Jane H. Hunter

    6. Chapter Twenty-Three

      Race and Ethnicity (pages 341–355)

      Eric Avila

    7. Chapter Twenty-Four

      Popular Culture (pages 356–370)

      Nan Enstad

    8. Chapter Twenty-Five

      History and Memory (pages 371–380)

      David Glassberg

  6. Part V: The Cultural Turn in Other Fields

    1. Chapter Twenty-Six

      Culturalist Approaches to Intellectual History (pages 381–395)

      Casey Nelson Blake

    2. Chapter Twenty-Seven

      The Impact of the Culture Concept on Social History (pages 396–405)

      Lawrence B. Glickman

    3. Chapter Twenty-Eight

      Religious History and the Cultural Turn (pages 406–415)

      Leigh E. Schmidt

    4. Chapter Twenty-Nine

      Political History and the Tool of Culture (pages 416–424)

      Joanne B. Freeman

    5. Chapter Thirty

      The Cultural History of Foreign Relations (pages 425–436)

      Andrew J. Rotter

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      Index (pages 437–462)

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