In the past lane : historical perspectives on American culture / / Michael Kammen [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Kammen Michael
• Pubblicazione: New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 973/.072
• Soggetto topico: Popular culture - United States - Historiography; Memory - Social aspects - United States - History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Social life and customs Historiography
• Note generali: Includes index.; Previously issued in print: 1997.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Reconsideration ; 8. 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; Credits
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: In the past lane
• ISBN: 0-19-771389-0; 1-280-83317-3; 9786610833177; 0-19-802713-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829101403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.