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A companion to post-1945 America
Title
A companion to post-1945 America / edited by Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig.
ISBN
9780470996201
047099620X
9781405149846
1405149841
9781405178679
1405178671
9781405168632
1405168633
Published
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 584 pages) : illustrations.
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Summary
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 policySurveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topicIncludes book review section on essential readings.
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Blackwell reference online. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Companion to post-1945 America. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 30, 2018
Series
Blackwell companions to American history ; [6]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I: Society and culture. Family and demography in postwar America: a hazard of new fortunes? / Stephen Lassonde
Power of place: race, political economy, and identity in the postwar metropolis / Robert O. Self, Thomas J. Sugrue
American religion since 1945 / James T. Fisher
Time out: leisure and tourism / Susan G. Davis
Mass media: from 1945 to the present / Susan J. Douglas
What the traffic bares: popular music "back in the USA" / Allen Tullos
Visual arts in post-1945 America / Erika Doss
American intellectual history and social thought since 1945 / Patrick N. Allitt
Part II: People and movements. American political culture since 1945 / Richard H. King
Hyphen nation: ethnicity in American intellectual and political life / Matthew Frye Jacobson
Labor during the American century: work, workers, and unions since 1945 / Joshua B. Freeman
Historiography of the struggle for black equality since 1945 / Kevin Gaines
Postwar women's history: the "second wave" of the end of family wage? / Nancy MacLean
Sexuality and the movements for sexual liberation / Beth Bailey
Movement of movements: the definition and periodization of the new left / Van Gosse
Triumph of conservatives in a liberal age / David L. Chappell
Modern environmentalism / Ian Tyrrell
Part III: Politics and foreign policy. Beyond the presidential synthesis: reordering political time / Julian E. Zelizer
McCarthyism and the Red Scare / Ellen Schrecker
Politics of "the least dangerous branch": the court, the constitution, and constitutional politics since 1945 / Mary L. Dudziak
Cold War in Europe / Carolyn Eisenberg
Off the beach: the United States, Latin America, and the Cold War / Greg Grandin
United States and East Asia in the postwar era / James I. Matray
Washington quagmire: US presidents and the Vietnam Wars
a pattern of intervention / David Hunt
End of the Cold War / David S. Painter, Thomas S. Blanton
From the "atomic age" to the "anti-nuclear age": nuclear energy in politics, diplomacy, and culture / J. Samuel Walker
Part IV: Essential reading. J. Anthony Lukas, Common ground: a turbulent decade in the lives of three American families (1985) / Alan Brinkley
Charles Payne, I've got the light of freedom (1995) / Linda Gordon
Samuel Lubell, The future of American politics (1952, 1956, 1965) / Nelson Lichtenstein
Stephanie Coontz, The way we never were (1992) / Elaine Tyler May
Alphonso Pinkney, The myth of black progress (1984) / Robert E. Weems, Jr.
Garry Wills, Nixon agonistes: the crisis of the self-made man (1970) / Robert Westbrook
Victor Navasky, Naming names (1980) / Jon Wiener
Edward Said, Orientalism (1978) / Melani McAlister.
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