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A companion to post-1945 America
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- Creator
- edited by Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2002
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 584 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 1405168633, 1780341016, 1405178671, 0631223258, 0470703350, 9780631223252, 9786611215118, 047099620X, 1281215112, 1405149841, 1280284552, 9786610284559, 1405123192
- OCLC
- ocm49260003, ocn437065630, on1024262571
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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