A Companion to American Cultural History - Brossura

Halttunen, Karen

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ISBN 10: 1118798066 ISBN 13: 9781118798065

Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Riassunto

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

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Recensione:

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

"This important collection of original essays provides a most useful and accessible survey of a new approach to United States history. It is not just a companion but a text in its own right, a new survey of the American past from many cultural perspectives."
Alan Trachtenberg, Yale University

"This volume marks a major contribution to the field of American cultural history. Illuminating, accessible, and authoritative, it will indeed prove a trusty companion for students and
scholars alike."
John Kasson, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"This well–wrought collection is a must–read. Its essays do more than any other book to clarify the multiple meanings of cultural history and to document the thorough penetration of cultural approaches to all the sub–fields of American historical scholarship."
Richard W. Fox, University of Southern California

"A comprehensive and timely overview of American cultural history, from its first pioneering examples to its most recent linguistic, visual, transnational, and performative turns. Students looking for a lucid and lively introduction to the themes, methods, and impact of the culturalist perspective on US history will find this volume indispensable."
Jean–Christophe Agnew, Yale University

"This collection is a marvel of intelligent synthesis and concise interpretation. Karen Halttunen has assembled some of the best cultural historians in the United States and they have cast unprecedented light on their contentious field from a rich variety of chronological and conceptual perspectives. The result is an indispensable scholarly resource."
Jackson Lears, Rutgers University

L'autore:

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 ofConfidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830–1870 (1986) andMurder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination (2000).

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• Editore: Wiley-Blackwell
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1118798066
• ISBN 13: 9781118798065
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 476