| Description |
xv, 496 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century. United States -- Civilization -- 20th century. United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century. United States -- Study and teaching. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to culture |
| Alt Author |
Bigsby, C. W. E. |
| Alt Title |
Modern American culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : what, then, is the American? / Christopher Bigsby -- The American century / Godfrey Hodgson -- The regions and regionalism / Richard H. King -- Immigration to the United States in the twentieth century / Roger Daniels -- Religion in the United States in the twentieth century : 1900-1960 / Peter W. Williams -- Shifting boundaries : religion and the United States : 1960 to the present / Wade Clark Roof, Nathalie Caron -- The Hispanic background of the United States / Nicolás Kanellos -- African Americans since 1900 / Werner Sollors -- Asian Americans / James Kyung-Jin Lee -- Women in the twentieth century / S.J. Kleinberg -- Queer America / Robert McRuer -- The United States, war, and the twentieth century / Kenneth P. O'Brien -- The culture of the Cold War / Stephen J. Whitfield -- Secret America : the CIA and American culture / Hugh Wilford -- Vietnam and the 1960s / John Hellmann -- New York City and the struggle of the modern / Eric Homberger -- Music : sound : technology / William Brooks -- African American music of the twentieth century / Paul Oliver -- Hollywood cinema / Walter Metz -- Popular culture / Paul Buhle -- Theatre / Brenda Murphy -- Society and the novel in twentieth-century America / Emory Elliott -- "Preferring the wrong way" : mapping the ethical diversity of US twentieth-century poetry / Tim Woods. |
| ISBN |
0521841321 (hbk.) 0521601096 (pbk.) 9780521841320 (hbk.) 9780521601092 (pbk.) |
| OCLC NUMBER |
65425781 |
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