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A Companion to American Cultural History
Karen Halttunen (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-23566-8
Hardcover
480 pages
February 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: Karen Halttunen.

Part I: Early America:.

1. Cultural Encounters: Americans and Europeans: Peter C. Mancall (University of Southern California).

2. Cultures of Colonial Settlement: Carla Gardina Pestana (Miami University).

3. British America in the Eighteenth Century: Karin Wulf (The College of William and Mary).

4. The Revolution and the Early Republic: Catherine E. Kelly (University of Oklahoma).

Part II: The Nineteenth Century:.

5. Antebellum Cultural History: James W. Cook (University of Michigan).

6. Religion and Reform: Lewis Perry (St. Louis University).

7. African American Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Demetrius L. Eudell (Wesleyan University).

8. The Civil War in American Culture: Alice Fahs (University of California, Irvine).

9. The West: Ann Fabian (Rutgers University).

10. The Gilded Age: Scott A. Sandage (Carnegie Mellon University).

11. Immigration and Ethnic Culture: Hasia R. Diner (New York University).

12. Cultural Watersheds in Fin de Siécle America: Janet M. Davis (University of Texas, Austin).

Part III: The Twentieth Century:.

13. Consumer Culture and Mass Culture: Charles F. McGovern (The College of William and Mary).

14. Modernism: Joel Dinerstein (Tulane University).

15. Politics and Culture in the 1930s and 1940s: Julia L. Foulkes (The New School).

16. The 1950s and 1960s: Daniel Belgrad (University of South Florida).

17. The Globalization of American Culture: Petra Goedde (Temple University).

Part IV: Thematic and Methodological Approaches:.

18. Cultural Theory, Dialogue, and American Cultural History: George Lipsitz (University of California, Santa Barbara).

19. Situating Visual Culture: Sally M. Promey (University of Maryland, College Park).

20. Material Cultures: J. Ritchie Garrison (University of Delaware).

21. Performance and Display: M. Alison Kibler (Franklin & Marshall College).

22. Gender and Sexuality: Jane H. Hunter (Lewis and Clark College).

23. Race and Ethnicity: Eric Avila (University of California, Los Angeles).

24. Popular Culture: Nan Enstad (University of Wisconsin, Madison).

25. History and Memory: David Glassberg (University of Massachusetts, Amherst).

Part V: The Cultural Turn in Other Fields:.

26. Culturalist Approaches to Intellectual History: Casey Nelson Blake (Columbia University).

27. The Impact of the Culture Concept on Social History: Lawrence B. Glickman (University of South Carolina).

28. Religious History and the Cultural Turn: Leigh E. Schmidt (Princeton University).

29. Political History and the Tool of Culture: Joanne B. Freeman (Yale University).

30. The Cultural History of Foreign Relations: Andrew J. Rotter (Colgate University)