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Informationen zum Autor Lynn Dumenil is the Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History at Occidental College. She is the author of The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (Hill and Wang, 1995, both cloth and pb); Freemasonry and American Culture, 1880-1930 (Princeton, 1984); Through Women's Eyes: An American History (with Ellen Carol DuBois; St. Martin's, 2005); America's History, 5th edition (with JamesHenretta and David Brody; St. Martin's, 2003); and America: A Concise History, 3rd edition (with James Henretta and David Brody; St. Martin's, 2005). Klappentext The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History is the first reference work to eschew a narrow focus on past presidents, intellectuals, military heroes, and other exhaustively studied and well-remembered persons, and instead examine the history of ordinary Americans. The more than 450 entries in the Encyclopedia examine our shared history "from the bottom up," with entries on the way automobiles shaped American lives, the westward movement of settlers and farmersin the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the transformation of work over time, the women's suffrage movement, counterculture, leisure activities, consumption patterns, voting habits, population movements, racial divides, and many more fascinating topics intended to help readers develop a richerframework for understanding the social experience of Americans throughout history. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History brings together in a single authoritative reference work an extraordinary wealth of information about the history of everyday life in America.Sixty years ago, an encyclopedia devoted to U.S. social history would have been unthinkable. The term "social history" was not even in common use. By the 1960s, however, scholars had begun to reject the notion that what was solely important about the past were the actions of political and military leaders and the ideas of elite intellectuals. These historians insisted upon the value of the experiences of ordinary people. Often called "history from the bottom up," social history includes thestudy of marginalized people whose voices had been largely missing from the history books, and covers a wide span of activities embracing the whole range of ordinary people's life experience. Social structures and the environment that shaped American life, including family, work, leisure, socialmovements, and patterns of mobility and settlements, are central to the work, as are themes of race, gender, ethnicity, and class. Sensitive to transnational developments, the volume draws extensively on new literature on slavery, health and disease, sexuality, women's activism, and technology's impact on everyday life. With over 450 articles by expert scholars, each signed entry features numerous cross references and discussion of social history as well as additional sources for further study in this two-volume A-to-Z compendium. The encyclopedia is a reference work of unparalleled depth and scope and will introduce a new generation of readers to the complexities of this dynamic field of study. It also features key biographies of leaders in social history, a topical outline, and subject index. LIST OF ENTRIES ; INTRODUCTION ; PREFACE ; COMMON ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS WORK ; THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY ; TOPICAL OUTLINE OF ENTRIES ; DIRECTORY OF CONTRIBUTORS ; INDEX ...
