A Companion to Post-1945 America.
A collection of 33 essays by key scholars on the history and historiography of post-1945 America. Each essay analyzes and categorizes the historical literature of the post-1945 period over a wide variety of topics, including: family; media; ethnicity; social movements; politics; and foreign policy.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
John Wiley & Sons,
2007.
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Colección: | Blackwell companions to American history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Contents; List of Illustrations; About the Contributors; Introduction; 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; 9 American Political Culture Since 1945.
- 10 Hyphen Nation: Ethnicity in American Intellectual and Political Life11 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 M.