| Description |
xvii, 584 pages ; 26 cm |
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Blackwell companions to American history |
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Blackwell companions to American history.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: PART I SOCIETY AND CULTURE 1 -- -- 1 Family and Demography in Postwar America: A Hazard of New -- Fortunes? 3 -- Stephen Lassonde -- 2 The Power of Place: Race, Political Economy, and Identity in the -- Postwar Metropolis 20 -- Robert 0. Self and ThomasJ. Sugrue -- 3 American Religion Since 1945 44 -- James T. Fisher -- 4 Time Out: Leisure and Tourism 64 -- Susan G. Davis -- 5 Mass Media: From 1945 to the Present 78 -- Susan J. Douglas -- 6 What the Traffic Bares: Popular Music "Back in the USA" 96 -- Allen Tullos -- 7 The Visual Arts in Post-1945 America 113 -- Erika Doss -- 8 American Intellectual History and Social Thought Since 1945 134 -- Patrick N. Allitt -- -- PART II PEOPLE AND MOVEMENTS 153 -- -- 9 American Political Culture Since 1945 155 -- Richard H. King -- 10 Hyphen Nation: Ethnicity in American Intellectual and Political Life 175 -- Matthew Frye Jacobson -- -- -- -- 11 Labor During the American Century: Work, Workers, and Unions -- Since 1945 192 -- Joshua B. Freeman -- 12 The Historiography of the Struggle for Black Equality Since 1945 211 -- Kevin Gaines -- 13 Postwar Women's History: The "Second Wave" or the End of the -- Family Wage? 235 -- Nancy MacLean -- 14 Sexuality and the Movements for Sexual Liberation 260 -- Beth Bailey -- 15 A Movement of Movements: The Definition and Periodization of the -- New Left 277 -- Van Gosse -- 16 The Triumph of Conservatives in a Liberal Age 303 -- David L. Chappell -- 17 Modern Environmentalism 328 -- Ian Tyrrell -- -- PART III POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY 343 -- -- 18 Beyond the Presidential Synthesis: Reordering Political Time 345 -- Julian E. Zelizer -- 19 McCarthyism and the Red Scare 371 -- Ellen Schrecker -- 20 The Politics of "The Least Dangerous Branch": -- The Court, the Constitution, and Constitutional Politics Since 1945 385 -- Mary L. Dudziak -- 21 The Cold War in Europe 406 -- Carolyn Eisenberg -- 22 Off the Beach: The United States, Latin America, and the Cold War 426 -- Greg Grandin -- 23 The United States and East Asia in the Postwar Era 446 -- James I. Matray -- 24 Washington Quagmire: US Presidents and the Vietnam Wars - -- A Pattern of Intervention 464 -- David Hunt -- 25 The End of the Cold War 479 -- David S. Painter and Thomas S. Blanton -- 26 From the "Atomic Age" to the "Anti-Nuclear Age": -- Nuclear Energy in Politics, Diplomacy, and Culture 501 -- J. Samuel Walker -- -- -- -- PART IV ESSENTIAL READING 519 -- -- 27 J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives -- of Three American Families (1985) 521 -- Alan Brinkley -- 28 Charles Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom (1995) 525 -- Linda Gordon -- 29 Samuel Lubell, The Future of American Politics (1952, 1956, 1965) 529 -- Nelson Lichtenstein -- 30 Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were (1992) 534 -- Elaine Tyler May -- 31 Alphonso Pinkney, The Myth of Black Progress (1984) 537 -- Robert E. Weems, Jr. -- 32 Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (1970) 540 -- Robert Westbrook -- 33 Victor Navasky, Naming Names (1980) 545 -- Jon Wiener -- 34 Edward Said, Orientalism (1978) 550 -- Melani McAlister |
| Summary |
"A Companion to Post-1945 America is an original collection of twenty-six essays by key scholars on the history and historiography of Post-1945 America. As the twenty-first century begins, post-World War II scholarship joins the historical canon with a wealth of new material. The contributors to this volume are the most prominent scholars in their respective fields, and each essay analyzes and categorizes the historical literature of the post-1945 period over a wide variety of topics. The coverage includes family, the media, ethnicity, labor, social movements, politics, and foreign policy. Each essay contains a select bibliography to guide further research, and the volume includes a review section that focuses on eight popular and influential historical works."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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United States -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140130 -- 2001-
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United States -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140130 -- 2001- -- Historiography
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United States -- History -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140302
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United States -- History -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140302 -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
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E-reference
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E-books
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History.
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| Author |
Rosenzweig, Roy.
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Agnew, Jean-Christophe.
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| LC no. |
2002020852 |
| ISBN |
0631223258 hb alkaline paper |
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