Format:
1 online resource (604 pages)
ISBN:
9781405123198
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to American history
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- A Companion to Post-1945 America -- Contents -- Illustrations -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Society and Culture -- 1 Family and Demography in Postwar America: A Hazard of New Fortunes? -- 2 The Power of Place: Race, Political Economy, and Identity in the Postwar Metropolis -- 3 American Religion Since 1945 -- 4 Time Out: Leisure and Tourism -- 5 Mass Media: From 1945 to the Present -- 6 What the Traffic Bares: Popular Music "Back in the USA" -- 7 The Visual Arts in Post-1945 America -- 8 American Intellectual History and Social Thought Since 1945 -- Part II People and Movements -- 9 American Political Culture Since 1945 -- 10 Hyphen Nation: Ethnicity in American Intellectual and Political Life -- 11 Labor During the American Century: Work, Workers, and Unions Since 1945 -- 12 The Historiography of the Struggle for Black Equality Since 1945 -- 13 Postwar Women's History: The "Second Wave" or the End of the Family Wage? -- 14 Sexuality and the Movements for Sexual Liberation -- 15 A Movement of Movements: The Definition and Periodization of the New Left -- 16 The Triumph of Conservatives in a Liberal Age -- 17 Modern Environmentalism -- Part III Politics and Foreign Policy -- 18 Beyond the Presidential Synthesis: Reordering Political Time -- 19 McCarthyism and the Red Scare -- 20 The Politics of "The Least Dangerous Branch": The Court, the Constitution, and Constitutional Politics Since 1945 -- 21 The Cold War in Europe -- 22 Off the Beach: The United States, Latin America, and the Cold War -- 23 The United States and East Asia in the Postwar Era -- 24 Washington Quagmire: US Presidents and the Vietnam Wars - A Pattern of Intervention -- 25 The End of the Cold War -- 26 From the "Atomic Age" to the "Anti-Nuclear Age": Nuclear Energy in Politics, Diplomacy, and Culture -- Part IV Essential Reading.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780631223252
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780631223252
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
English Studies
Keywords:
USA
;
Geschichte 1945-2000
;
Aufsatzsammlung
