A Companion to American Cultural History (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Halttunen, Karen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470691090
• Artikelnr.: 38183440

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

Part I: Early America:.

Part II: The Nineteenth Century:.

Part III: The Twentieth Century:.

Part V: The Cultural Turn in Other Fields:

Rezensionen

"The thirty bibliographies of the most influential work in Americancultural history would by themselves make the hook very helpful toa wide audience. But the essays' historiographical and thematicoverviews provide the most valuable contribution, for each essay isaimed squarely at the ways that the best works in the field havebeen in conversation with each other." (A Journal of SouthernHistory, 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 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 readershould come away from it without a good springboard to furtherstudy. It is an apitite-whetter, a conspectus and a guide."(Reference Reviews, 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 atChapel Hill

"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