A Companion to Post-1945 America (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Agnew, Jean-Christophe; Rosenzweig, Roy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Post-1945 America is an original collection of 34 essays by key scholars on the history and historiography of Post-1945 America. * Covers society and culture, people and movements, politics and foreign policy * Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic * Includes book review section on essential readings

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405123198
• Artikelnr.: 38286658

Autorenporträt

Jean-Christophe Agnew is Professor of American Studies and History at Yale University. He is the author of Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought (1989) and of a number of articles on the history of market society and consumer culture. Roy Rosenzweig is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History and director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. He is the author, co-author, and co-editor of a number of books, including The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (1998), which won the Historic Preservation Book Prize for Best Book of 1998.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Jean-Christophe Agnew (Yale University) and RoyRosenzweig (George Mason University).

Part I: Society and Culture.

Part II: People and Movements.

Part III: Politics and Foreign Policy.

Part IV: Essential Reading.

Notes on Contributors.

Rezensionen

"These 34 valuable essays review the current state ofhistorical research on a wide range of issues and contribute to thescholarly study of US history following World War II. The issuesreflect the diverse directions that historical inquiry has recentlytaken ... This book will help define the new historiography:highly recommended." Choice

"This is a gem of a book that will fascinate anyone whoseinterest in recent US history goes beyond nostalgia andpersonalities. Broad enough to cover both tourism and the Cold War,it will quickly become required reading for scholars of theperiod." Michael Kazin, Georgetown University andco-author, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s