A Companion to American Cultural History

Herausgeber: Halttunen, Karen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The thirty bibliographies of the most influential work in American cultural history would by themselves make the book very helpful to a wide audience. But the essays' historiographical and thematic overviews provide the most valuable contribution, for each essay is aimed squarely at the ways that the best works in the field have been in conversation with each other." (A Journal of Southern History, February 2010) "A monumental achievement. The breadth of coverage is staggering, and the depth of insight a credit to its multifarious authors. Rarely can one book offer so much." (Reviews in History, April 2009) "This excellent reader in US cultural history for undergraduates may also be useful to specialists as a general overview of the field as it has evolved, especially over the past four decades. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." (CHOICE, March 2009) "A guide for scholars and students who are interested in developments over the past quarter-century ... No reader should come away from it without a good springboard to further study. It is an appetite-whetter, a conspectus and a guide." (Reference Reviews, January 2009) In the past few decades, the field of American cultural history has emerged as a central area of interest for American historians. The field now embraces a holistic concept of "culture" as the entire range of practices, representations, languages, and beliefs that make up a particular society's way of life. 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. Primarily intended for cultural historians and students, the book will also appeal to all readers interested in the significant impact the burgeoning field of cultural history has made on American history scholarship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 891g
• ISBN-13: 9781118798065
• ISBN-10: 1118798066
• Artikelnr.: 40046556

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"The thirty bibliographies of the most influential work inAmerican cultural history would by themselves make the book veryhelpful to a wide audience. But the essays' historiographical andthematic overviews provide the most valuable contribution, for eachessay is aimed squarely at the ways that the best works in thefield have been in conversation with each other." (A Journal ofSouthern History, February 2010)

"A monumental achievement. The breadth of coverage isstaggering, and the depth of insight a credit to its multifariousauthors. Rarely can one book offer so much." (Reviews inHistory, April 2009)

"This excellent reader in US cultural history forundergraduates may also be useful to specialists as a generaloverview of the field as it has evolved, especially over the pastfour decades. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Alllevels/libraries." (CHOICE, March 2009)

"A guide for scholars and students who are interested indevelopments over the past quarter-century ... No reader shouldcome away from it without a good springboard to further study. Itis an appetite-whetter, a conspectus and a guide." (ReferenceReviews, January 2009)

"The contributors to this indispensable volume have applied toscholarship in American cultural history the same keen imaginationand appreciation for complexity that has made the field so excitingin recent years."
-Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester

"This important collection of original essays provides a mostuseful and accessible survey of a new approach to United Stateshistory. It is not just a companion but a text in its own right, anew survey of the American past from many culturalperspectives."
-Alan Trachtenberg, Yale University

"This volume marks a major contribution to the field of Americancultural history. Illuminating, accessible, and authoritative, itwill indeed prove a trusty companion for students and
scholars alike."
-John Kasson, The University of North Carolina at ChapelHill

"This well-wrought collection is a must-read. Its essays do morethan any other book to clarify the multiple meanings of culturalhistory and to document the thorough penetration of culturalapproaches to all the sub-fields of American historicalscholarship."
-Richard W. Fox, University of Southern California

"A comprehensive and timely overview of American culturalhistory, from its first pioneering examples to its most recentlinguistic, visual, transnational, and performative turns. Studentslooking for a lucid and lively introduction to the themes, methods,and impact of the culturalist perspective on US history will findthis volume indispensable."
-Jean-Christophe Agnew, Yale University

"This collection is a marvel of intelligent synthesis andconcise interpretation. Karen Halttunen has assembled some of thebest cultural historians in the United States and they have castunprecedented light on their contentious field from a rich varietyof chronological and conceptual perspectives. The result is anindispensable scholarly resource."
-Jackson Lears, Rutgers University