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Informationen zum Autor Jean-Christophe Agnew is Professor of American Studies and History at Yale University. He is the author of Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought (1989) and of a number of articles on the history of market society and consumer culture. Roy Rosenzweig is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History and director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. He is the author, co-author, and co-editor of a number of books, including The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (1998), which won the Historic Preservation Book Prize for Best Book of 1998. Klappentext A Companion to Post-1945 America is an original collection of twenty-six essays by key scholars on the history and historiography of the period. As the twenty-first century begins, post-World War II scholarship joins the historical canon with a wealth of new material. The contributors to this volume are the most prominent scholars in their respective fields, and each essay analyzes and categorizes the historical literature of the post-1945 period over a wide variety of topics. The coverage includes family, the media, ethnicity, labor, social movements, politics, and foreign policy. Each essay contains a select bibliography to guide further research, and the volume includes a review section that focuses on eight popular and influential historical works. For students, historians, and general readers of modern American history, this book is a milestone that will set the standard for post-World War II American historiography. Zusammenfassung * Contains 34 original essays by leading experts in Post--1945 American history. * Covers society and culture! people and movements! politics and foreign policy. * Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. * Includes a book review section on essential readings. . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations viii About the Contributors ix Introduction xiii PART I SOCIETY AND CULTURE 1 1 Family and Demography in Postwar America: A Hazard of New Fortunes? 3 Stephen Lassonde 2 The Power of Place: Race, Political Economy, and Identity in the Postwar Metropolis 20 Robert O. Self and Thomas J. Sugrue 3 American Religion Since 1945 44 James T. Fisher 4 Time Out: Leisure and Tourism 64 Susan G. Davis 5 Mass Media: From 1945 to the Present 78 Susan J. Douglas 6 What the Traffic Bares: Popular Music "Back in the USA" 96 Allen Tullos 7 The Visual Arts in Post-1945 America 113 Erika Doss 8 American Intellectual History and Social Thought Since 1945 134 Patrick N. Allitt PART II PEOPLE AND MOVEMENTS 153 9 American Political Culture Since 1945 155 Richard H. King 10 Hyphen Nation: Ethnicity in American Intellectual and Political Life 175 Matthew Frye Jacobson 11 Labor During the American Century: Work, Workers, and Unions Since 1945 192 Joshua B. Freeman 12 The Historiography of the Struggle for Black Equality Since 1945 211 Kevin Gaines 13 Postwar Women's History: The "Second Wave" or the End of the Family Wage? 235 Nancy MacLean 14 Sexuality and the Movements for Sexual Liberation 260 Beth Bailey 15 A Movement of Movements: The Definition and Periodization of the New Left 277 Van Gosse 16 The Triumph of Conservatives in a Liberal Age 303 David L. Chappell 17 Modern Environmentalism 328 Ian Tyrrell PART III POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY 343 18 Beyond the Presidential Synthesis: Reordering Political Time 345
