04986nam 2200817 a 450 99621816840331620200520144314.01-4051-6863-397866112151181-4051-7867-11-281-21511-21-280-28455-21-78034-101-697866102845590-470-70335-00-470-99620-X1-4051-2319-2(CKB)111087027739258(EBL)214138(OCoLC)437065630(SSID)ssj0000126157(PQKBManifestationID)11152473(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126157(PQKBWorkID)10031092(PQKB)11071532(MiAaPQ)EBC214138(MiAaPQ)EBC293117(MiAaPQ)EBC4956236(Au-PeEL)EBL214138(CaPaEBR)ebr10154842(Au-PeEL)EBL4956236(CaONFJC)MIL28455(OCoLC)1024262571(iGPub)WILEYB0026391(PPN)168707500(EXLCZ)9911108702773925820020213d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to post-1945 America[electronic resource] /edited by Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig1st ed.Malden, MA Blackwellc20021 online resource (604 p.)Blackwell companions to American historyDescription based upon print version of record.1-4051-4984-1 0-631-22325-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Movements9 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 Policy18 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 CulturePart 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); IndexA 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 readingsBlackwell companions to American history.HISTORY / United States / GeneralbisacshUnited StatesHistory1945-United StatesHistory1945-1953HistoriographyHISTORY / United States / General.973.91Agnew Jean-Christophe985556Rosenzweig Roy246383MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996218168403316A companion to post-1945 America2252797UNISA