03190nam 2200709uu 450 991082910140332120230207225850.00-19-771389-01-280-83317-397866108331770-19-802713-310.1093/oso/9780195111118.001.0001(CKB)1000000000578965(EBL)271662(OCoLC)476007940(SSID)ssj0000177933(PQKBManifestationID)11177538(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177933(PQKBWorkID)10219130(PQKB)10732048(Au-PeEL)EBL271662(CaPaEBR)ebr10358481(CaONFJC)MIL83317(Au-PeEL)EBL7036142(MiAaPQ)EBC271662(OCoLC)1406784020(StDuBDS)9780197713891(EXLCZ)99100000000057896519980112e20231997 |y |engur|n|---|||||txtccrIn the past lane historical perspectives on American culture /Michael Kammen[electronic resource]New York ;Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (296 p.)Oxford scholarship onlineIncludes index.Previously issued in print: 1997.0-19-511111-7 0-19-513091-X Contents; Introduction; I: THE PERSONAL AND THE PROFESSIONAL; 1. Personal Identity and the Historian's Vocation; II: PERCEPTIONS OF CULTURE AND PUBLIC LIFE; 2. Culture and the State in America; 3. Temples of Justice: The Iconography of Judgment and American Culture; 4. ""Our Idealism Is Practical"": Emerging Uses of Tradition in American Commercial Culture, 1889-1936; 5. The Enduring Challenges and Changing Role of Cultural Institutions; III: CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF THE PAST; 6. Myth, Memory, and Amnesia in American Historical Art; 7. The Problem of American Exceptionalism: A Reconsideration8. Some Patterns and Meanings of Memory Distortion in American History9. History Is Our Heritage: The Past in Contemporary American Culture; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; CreditsThis text brings together a decade of writing from cultural historian, Michael Kammen. Topics include: the role of the historian; the relationship between culture and the State; uses of tradition in American commercial culture; and memory distortion in American history.Oxford scholarship online.Popular cultureUnited StatesHistoriographyMemorySocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesSocial life and customsHistoriographyPopular cultureHistoriography.MemorySocial aspectsHistory.973/.072Kammen Michael684357DLCDLCUkStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910829101403321In the past lane4151903UNINA