A companion to American cultural history

Halttunen, Karen, 1951- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780631235668 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xiii, 461 p. ; 26 cm.
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Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 Ninteenth Century -- 5. Antebellum Cultural History -- 6. Religion and Reform -- 7. Black Culture in the Eighteen and Ninteenth 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 Sielcle America -- Part III. The Twentieth Century -- 13. Consumer Culture and Mass Culture -- 14. Modernism -- 15. Politics and Culture in the 1930s and 1940s -- 16. The 1950s and 1960s -- 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. Religous History and the Cutlural Turn -- 29. Political History and teh Tool of Culture -- 30. The Cultural Hsitory of Foreign Relations -- Index.