Culture Wars in America - A Documentary and Reference Guide

Informationen zum Autor Glenn H. Utter , PhD, is distinguished professor emeritus at Lamar University in Texas. Klappentext This comprehensive documentary report on the cultural and political state of the union explores the flashpoints of the debate over American identity and values. Culture Wars in America: A Documentary and Reference Guide places the most hotly debated issues in American society in historical context. With this book in hand, the reader can more effectively evaluate the potential social and political significance of these important conflicts. Americans have never found it easy to reconcile their differences, even while sometimes achieving a remarkable unity of purpose. Although we pride ourselves on pluralism, we struggle to find common ground on our most essential principles. Since the 1980s, events covered in this volume have increased the questioning of traditional religious values, continuing immigration and globalization, the liberalization of social mores, and differing understandings of the nation's role in a post-Cold War world. Increased partisan conflict over these issues has dominated American domestic politics and policymaking. The primary source documents collected and analyzed here reflect all of these trends, while fairly representing the contending positions that shape our contemporary political reality. Zusammenfassung This comprehensive documentary report on the cultural and political state of the union explores the flashpoints of the debate over American identity and values.

Product details

• Authors: Glenn Utter, Glenn H. Utter, Utter Glenn H.
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.11.2009
• EAN: 9780313350382
• ISBN: 978-0-313-35038-2
• No. of pages: 395
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 298 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Documentary and Reference Guid; Documentary and Reference Guides; Documentary and Reference Guid; Documentary and Reference Guides
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Nachschlagewerke, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Reference, Reference works, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas