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Halttunen - Companion to American Cultural History - 9780631235668 - V9780631235668
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Companion to American Cultural History

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Description for Companion to American Cultural History Hardcover. 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: Blackwell Companions to American History. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 184 x 30. Weight in Grams: 996.
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 of American Culture; thematic approaches ... Read more
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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Companions to American History
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631235668
SKU
V9780631235668
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About Halttunen
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 Companion to American Cultural History
"The thirty bibliographies of the most influential work in American cultural history would by themselves make the hook 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." (A ... Read more

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