Screen LibraryA companion to post-1945 America
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 topicIncl...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell companions to American history ;
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470996201 |
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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. |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 584 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780470996201 047099620X 9781405149846 1405149841 9781405178679 1405178671 9781405168632 1405168633 |
| Index Number: | E742 |
| CLC: | K712.5 |
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Family and demography in postwar America: a hazard of new fortunes? / Power of place: race, political economy, and identity in the postwar metropolis / American religion since 1945 / Time out: leisure and tourism / Mass media: from 1945 to the present / What the traffic bares: popular music "back in the USA" / Visual arts in post-1945 America / American intellectual history and social thought since 1945 / American political culture since 1945 / Hyphen nation: ethnicity in American intellectual and political life / Labor during the American century: work, workers, and unions since 1945 / Historiography of the struggle for black equality since 1945 / Postwar women's history: the "second wave" of the end of family wage? / Sexuality and the movements for sexual liberation / Movement of movements: the definition and periodization of the new left / Triumph of conservatives in a liberal age / Modern environmentalism / Beyond the presidential synthesis: reordering political time / McCarthyism and the Red Scare / Politics of "the least dangerous branch": the court, the constitution, and constitutional politics since 1945 / Cold War in Europe / Off the beach: the United States, Latin America, and the Cold War / United States and East Asia in the postwar era / Washington quagmire: US presidents and the Vietnam Wars -- a pattern of intervention / End of the Cold War / From the "atomic age" to the "anti-nuclear age": nuclear energy in politics, diplomacy, and culture / J. Anthony Lukas, Common ground: a turbulent decade in the lives of three American families (1985) / Charles Payne, I've got the light of freedom (1995) / Samuel Lubell, The future of American politics (1952, 1956, 1965) / Stephanie Coontz, The way we never were (1992) / Alphonso Pinkney, The myth of black progress (1984) / Garry Wills, Nixon agonistes: the crisis of the self-made man (1970) / Victor Navasky, Naming names (1980) / Edward Said, Orientalism (1978) / |