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Record Nr.

UNISA996218168403316

Titolo

A companion to post-1945 America [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell, c2002

ISBN

1-4051-6863-3

9786611215118

1-4051-7867-1

1-281-21511-2

1-280-28455-2

1-78034-101-6

9786610284559

0-470-70335-0

0-470-99620-X

1-4051-2319-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (604 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to American history

Altri autori (Persone)

AgnewJean-Christophe

RosenzweigRoy

Disciplina

973.91

Soggetti

HISTORY / United States / General

United States History 1945-

United States History 1945-1953 Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 194510 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 Time19 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 Reading27 J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (1985); 28 Charles Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom (1995); 29 Samuel Lubell, The Future of American Politics (1952, 1956, 1965); 30 Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were (1992); 31 Alphonso Pinkney, The Myth of Black Progress (1984); 32 Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (1970); 33 Victor Navasky, Naming Names (1980); 34 Edward Said, Orientalism (1978); Index

Sommario/riassunto

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