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A Companion to American Cultural History
Karen Halttunen (Ed.)
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Description for A Companion to American Cultural History
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Halttunen, Karen. Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History. Num Pages: 476 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 173 x 21. Weight in Grams: 722.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
476
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781118798065
SKU
V9781118798065
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About Karen Halttunen (Ed.)
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).
Reviews for A Companion to American Cultural History
The thirty bibliographies of the most influential work in American cultural history would by themselves make the book 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. ... Read more