A Companion to American Cultural History
Blackwell Companions to American History
Februar 2008
476 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-23566-8
John Wiley & Sons
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
Part I: Early America:.
Part II: The Nineteenth Century:.
Part III: The Twentieth Century:.
Part V: The Cultural Turn in Other Fields:
Part II: The Nineteenth Century:.
Part III: The Twentieth Century:.
Part V: The Cultural Turn in Other Fields:
"The thirty bibliographies of the most influential work in American
cultural history would by themselves make the hook 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 apitite-whetter, a conspectus and a guide."
(Reference Reviews, January 2009)
"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
cultural history would by themselves make the hook 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 apitite-whetter, a conspectus and a guide."
(Reference Reviews, January 2009)
"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
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).
