A Companion to American Cultural History

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. 30 essays explore the history of American culture at all analytic levels Written by scholarly experts well-versed in the questions and controversies that have activated interest in this burgeoning field Part of the authoritative Blackwell Companions to American History series Provides both a chronological and thematic approach: topics range from British America in the Eighteenth Century to the modern day globalization of American Culture; thematic approaches include gender and sexuality and popular culture

A Companion to American Cultural History offers ahistoriographic overview of the scholarship, with special attentionto the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and anassessment of where it is currently headed.* 30 essays explore the history of American culture at allanalytic levels* Written by scholarly experts well-versed in the questions andcontroversies that have activated interest in this burgeoningfield* Part of the authoritative Blackwell Companions to AmericanHistory series* Provides both a chronological and thematic approach: topicsrange from British America in the Eighteenth Century to the modernday globalization of American Culture; thematic approaches includegender and sexuality and popular culture

Notes on Contributors viiiIntroduction xiKaren HalttunenPart I Early America 11. Cultural Encounters: Americans and Europeans 3Peter C. Mancall2. Cultures of Colonial Settlement 17Carla Gardina Pestana3. British America in the Eighteenth Century 32Karin Wulf4. The Revolution and the Early Republic 46Catherine E. KellyPart II The Nineteenth Century 635. Antebellum Cultural History 65James W. Cook6. Religion and Reform 79Lewis Perry7. Black Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 95Demetrius L. Eudell8. The Civil War in American Culture 110Alice Fahs9. The West 125Ann Fabian10. The Gilded Age 139Scott A. Sandage11. Immigration and Ethnic Culture 154Hasia R. Diner12. Cultural Watersheds in Fin de Siècle America 166Janet M. DavisPart III The Twentieth Century 18113. Consumer Culture and Mass Culture 183Charles F. McGovern14. Modernism 198Joel Dinerstein15. Politics and Culture in the 1930s and 1940s 214Julia L. Foulkes16. The 1950s and 1960s 230Daniel Belgrad17. The Globalization of American Culture 246Petra GoeddePart IV Thematic and Methodological Approaches 26318. Cultural Theory, Dialogue, and American Cultural History 265George Lipsitz19. Situating Visual Culture 279Sally M. Promey20. Material Cultures 295J. Ritchie Garrison21. Performance and Display 311M. Alison Kibler22. Gender and Sexuality 327Jane H. Hunter23. Race and Ethnicity 341Eric Avila24. Popular Culture 356Nan Enstad25. History and Memory 371David GlassbergPart V The Cultural Turn in Other Fields 38126. Culturalist Approaches to Intellectual History 383Casey Nelson Blake27. The Impact of the Culture Concept on Social History 396Lawrence B. Glickman28. Religious History and the Cultural Turn 406Leigh E. Schmidt29. Political History and the Tool of Culture 416Joanne B. Freeman30. The Cultural History of Foreign Relations 425Andrew J. RotterIndex 437