书名: A Companion to American Cultural History (Blackwell Companions to American History)
作者: Karen Halttunen (Editor)
出版社: Wiley-Blackwell (February 28, 2008)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0631235663
ISBN-13: 978-0631235668
Book Description
In the past few decades, the field of American cultural history has emerged as a central area of interest for American historians. The field now embraces a holistic concept of “culture” as the entire range of practices, representations, languages, and beliefs that make up a particular society’s way of life. A Companion to American Cultural History offers a historiographic overview of the scholarship, with special attention to the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and an assessment of where it is currently headed. Primarily intended for cultural historians and students, the book will also appeal to all readers interested in the significant impact the burgeoning field of cultural history has made on American history scholarship.
Review
“The contributors to this indispensable volume have applied to scholarship in American cultural history the same keen imagination and appreciation for complexity that has made the field so exciting in recent years.” -- Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester
“This important collection of original essays provides a most useful and accessible survey of a new approach to United States history. It is not just a companion but a text in its own right, a new survey of the American past from many cultural perspectives.” -- Alan Trachtenberg, Yale University
“This volume marks a major contribution to the field of American cultural history. Illuminating, accessible, and authoritative, it will indeed prove a trusty companion for students and scholars alike.” -- John Kasson, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“This well wrought collection is a must-read. Its essays do more than any other book to clarify the multiple meanings of cultural history and to document the thorough penetration of cultural approaches to all the sub-fields of American historical scholarship.” -- Richard W. Fox, University of Southern California
“A comprehensive and timely overview of American cultural history, from its first pioneering examples to its most recent linguistic, visual, transnational, and performative turns. Students looking for a lucid and lively introduction to the themes, methods, and impact of the culturalist perspective on US history will find this volume indispensable.” -- Jean-Christophe Agnew, Yale University
“This collection is a marvel of intelligent synthesis and concise interpretation. Karen Halttunen has assembled some of the best cultural historians in the United States and they have cast unprecedented light on their contentious field from a rich variety of chronological and conceptual perspectives. The result is an indispensable scholarly resource.” -- Jackson Lears, Rutgers University
About the Author
Karen Halttunen is Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, and former president of the American Studies Association. She is the author of Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830–1870 (1986) and Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination (2000).
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作者: Karen Halttunen (Editor)
出版社: Wiley-Blackwell (February 28, 2008)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0631235663
ISBN-13: 978-0631235668
Book Description
In the past few decades, the field of American cultural history has emerged as a central area of interest for American historians. The field now embraces a holistic concept of “culture” as the entire range of practices, representations, languages, and beliefs that make up a particular society’s way of life. A Companion to American Cultural History offers a historiographic overview of the scholarship, with special attention to the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and an assessment of where it is currently headed. Primarily intended for cultural historians and students, the book will also appeal to all readers interested in the significant impact the burgeoning field of cultural history has made on American history scholarship.
Review
“The contributors to this indispensable volume have applied to scholarship in American cultural history the same keen imagination and appreciation for complexity that has made the field so exciting in recent years.” -- Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester
“This important collection of original essays provides a most useful and accessible survey of a new approach to United States history. It is not just a companion but a text in its own right, a new survey of the American past from many cultural perspectives.” -- Alan Trachtenberg, Yale University
“This volume marks a major contribution to the field of American cultural history. Illuminating, accessible, and authoritative, it will indeed prove a trusty companion for students and scholars alike.” -- John Kasson, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“This well wrought collection is a must-read. Its essays do more than any other book to clarify the multiple meanings of cultural history and to document the thorough penetration of cultural approaches to all the sub-fields of American historical scholarship.” -- Richard W. Fox, University of Southern California
“A comprehensive and timely overview of American cultural history, from its first pioneering examples to its most recent linguistic, visual, transnational, and performative turns. Students looking for a lucid and lively introduction to the themes, methods, and impact of the culturalist perspective on US history will find this volume indispensable.” -- Jean-Christophe Agnew, Yale University
“This collection is a marvel of intelligent synthesis and concise interpretation. Karen Halttunen has assembled some of the best cultural historians in the United States and they have cast unprecedented light on their contentious field from a rich variety of chronological and conceptual perspectives. The result is an indispensable scholarly resource.” -- Jackson Lears, Rutgers University
About the Author
Karen Halttunen is Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, and former president of the American Studies Association. She is the author of Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830–1870 (1986) and Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination (2000).
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