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The Cambridge companion to modern American culture / edited by Christopher Bigsby. [electronic resource]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Description
1 online resource (xv, 496 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Available Online
Cambridge Companions Complete Collection
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Subject(s)
Popular culture
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United States
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History
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20th century
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United States
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Civilization
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20th century
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United States
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Study and teaching
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United States
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Social conditions
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20th century
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United States
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Intellectual life
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20th century
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Editor
Bigsby, C. W. E.
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Series
Cambridge companions to culture.
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Summary note
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the cultural themes and intellectual issues that drive the dominant culture of the twentieth century. This companion explores the social, political and economic forces that have made America what it is today. It shows how these contexts impact upon twentieth-century American literature, cinema and art. An international team of contributors examines the special contribution of African Americans and of immigrant communities to the variety and vibrancy of modern America. The essays range from art to politics, popular culture to sport, immigration and race to religion and war. Varied, extensive and challenging, this Companion is essential reading for students and teachers of American studies around the world. It is the most accessible and useful introduction available to an exciting range of topics in modern American culture.
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
Language note
English
Contents
1. Introduction: what, then, is the American? / Christopher Bigsby
2. The American century / Godfrey Hodgson
3. The regions and regionalism / Richard H. King
4. Immigration to the United States in the twentieth century / Roger Daniels
5. Religion in the United States in the twentieth century: 1900-1960 / Peter W. Williams
6. Shifting boundaries: religion and the United States: 1960 to the present / Wade Clark Roof and Nathalie Caron
7. The Hispanic background of the United States / Nicolás Kanellos
8. African Americans since 1900 / Werner Sollors
9. Asian Americans / James Kyung-Jin Lee
10. Women in the twentieth century / S.J. Kleinberg
11. Queer America / Robert McRuer
12. The United States, war, and the twentieth century / Kenneth P. O'Brien
13. The culture of the Cold War / Stephen J. Whitfield
14. Secret America: the CIA and American culture / Hugh Wilford
15. Vietnam and the 1960s / John Hellmann
16. New York City and the struggle of the modern / Eric Homberger
17. Music: sound: technology / William Brooks
18. African American music of the twentieth century / Paul Oliver
19. Hollywood cinema / Walter Metz
20. Popular culture / Paul Buhle
21. Theatre / Brenda Murphy
22. Society and the novel in twentieth-century America / Emory Elliott
23. "Preferring the wrong way": mapping the ethical diversity of US twentieth-century poetry / Tim Woods.
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ISBN
1-107-48615-7
1-139-00117-5
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