Description |
1 online resource (604 pages) |
Series |
Blackwell companions to American history |
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Blackwell companions to American history.
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Contents |
Contents; List of Illustrations; About the Contributors; Introduction; 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; 9 American Political Culture Since 1945 |
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10 Hyphen Nation: Ethnicity in American Intellectual and Political Life11 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 M |
Summary |
A collection of 33 essays by key scholars on the history and historiography of post-1945 America. Each essay analyzes and categorizes the historical literature of the post-1945 period over a wide variety of topics, including: family; media; ethnicity; social movements; politics; and foreign policy |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
HISTORY / United States / General.
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Historiography
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SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140302
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United States -- History -- 1945-1953 -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140301
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Subject |
United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Rosenzweig, Roy
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ISBN |
9781405123198 |
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1405123192 |
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