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1 online resource (xvii, 584 pages) : illustrations |
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data file |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to American history ; 6
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| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
Part I: Society and culture. Family and demography in postwar America: a hazard of new fortunes? / Stephen Lassonde -- Power of place: race, political economy, and identity in the postwar metropolis / Robert O. Self, Thomas J. Sugrue -- American religion since 1945 / James T. Fisher -- Time out: leisure and tourism / Susan G. Davis -- Mass media: from 1945 to the present / Susan J. Douglas -- What the traffic bares: popular music "back in the USA" / Allen Tullos -- Visual arts in post-1945 America / Erika Doss -- American intellectual history and social thought since 1945 / Patrick N. Allitt -- Part II: People and movements. American political culture since 1945 / Richard H. King -- Hyphen nation: ethnicity in American intellectual and political life / Matthew Frye Jacobson -- Labor during the American century: work, workers, and unions since 1945 / Joshua B. Freeman -- Historiography of the struggle for black equality since 1945 / Kevin Gaines -- Postwar women's history: the "second wave" of the end of family wage? / Nancy MacLean -- Sexuality and the movements for sexual liberation / Beth Bailey -- Movement of movements: the definition and periodization of the new left / Van Gosse -- Triumph of conservatives in a liberal age / David L. Chappell -- Modern environmentalism / Ian Tyrrell -- Part III: Politics and foreign policy. Beyond the presidential synthesis: reordering political time / Julian E. Zelizer -- McCarthyism and the Red Scare / Ellen Schrecker -- Politics of "the least dangerous branch": the court, the constitution, and constitutional politics since 1945 / Mary L. Dudziak -- Cold War in Europe / Carolyn Eisenberg -- Off the beach: the United States, Latin America, and the Cold War / Greg Grandin -- United States and East Asia in the postwar era / James I. Matray -- Washington quagmire: US presidents and the Vietnam Wars -- a pattern of intervention / David Hunt -- End of the Cold War / David S. Painter, Thomas S. Blanton -- From the "atomic age" to the "anti-nuclear age": nuclear energy in politics, diplomacy, and culture / J. Samuel Walker -- Part IV: Essential reading. J. Anthony Lukas, Common ground: a turbulent decade in the lives of three American families (1985) / Alan Brinkley -- Charles Payne, I've got the light of freedom (1995) / Linda Gordon -- Samuel Lubell, The future of American politics (1952, 1956, 1965) / Nelson Lichtenstein -- Stephanie Coontz, The way we never were (1992) / Elaine Tyler May -- Alphonso Pinkney, The myth of black progress (1984) / Robert E. Weems, Jr.-- Garry Wills, Nixon agonistes: the crisis of the self-made man (1970) / Robert Westbrook -- Victor Navasky, Naming names (1980) / Jon Wiener -- Edward Said, Orientalism (1978) / Melani McAlister |
| Summary |
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 |
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WILEY DDA |
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John Wiley and Sons Wiley Online Library: Complete oBooks |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- 1945-
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United States -- History -- 1945- -- Historiography
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| Alt Author |
Agnew, Jean-Christophe
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Rosenzweig, Roy
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| Other Form |
Print version: Companion to post-1945 America. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006 9781405149846 1405149841 (DLC) 2006280222 (OCoLC)68184445 |
| OCLC # |
184983589 |
| ISBN # |
9780470996201 |
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047099620X |
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9781405149846 |
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1405149841 |
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9781405178679 |
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1405178671 |
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9781405168632 |
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1405168633 |
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9780631223252 |
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0631223258 |
| PUBN # |
10.1002/9780470996201 doi |
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