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A Companion to Post-1945 America
Jean-Christophe Agnew (Edited by), J Agnew (Author), Roy Rosenzweig (Edited by)
9780631223252, Wiley
Hardback, published 29 August 2002
608 pages
25.6 x 18 x 3.9 cm, 1.191 kg
“These 34 valuable essays review the current state of historical research on a wide range of issues and contribute to the scholarly study of US history following World War II. The issues reflect the diverse directions that historical inquiry has recently taken … This book will help define the new historiography: highly recommended.” Choice “This is a gem of a book that will fascinate anyone whose interest in recent US history goes beyond nostalgia and personalities. Broad enough to cover both tourism and the Cold War, it will quickly become required reading for scholars of the period.” Michael Kazin, Georgetown University and co-author, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s
A Companion to Post-1945 America is an original collection of 34 essays by key scholars on the history and historiography of Post-1945 America.
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 2 The Power of Place: Race, Political Economy, and Identity in the Postwar Metropolis 20 3 American Religion Since 1945 44 4 Time Out: Leisure and Tourism 64 5 Mass Media: From 1945 to the Present 78 6 What the Traffic Bares: Popular Music “Back in the USA” 96 7 The Visual Arts in Post-1945 America 113 8 American Intellectual History and Social Thought Since 1945 134 PART II PEOPLE AND MOVEMENTS 153 9 American Political Culture Since 1945 155 10 Hyphen Nation: Ethnicity in American Intellectual and Political Life 175 11 Labor During the American Century: Work, Workers, and Unions Since 1945 192 12 The Historiography of the Struggle for Black Equality Since 1945 211 13 Postwar Women’s History: The “Second Wave” or the End of the Family Wage? 235 14 Sexuality and the Movements for Sexual Liberation 260 15 A Movement of Movements: The Definition and Periodization of the New Left 277 16 The Triumph of Conservatives in a Liberal Age 303 17 Modern Environmentalism 328 PART III POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY 343 18 Beyond the Presidential Synthesis: Reordering Political Time 345 19 McCarthyism and the Red Scare 371 20 The Politics of “The Least Dangerous Branch”: The Court, the Constitution, and Constitutional Politics Since 1945 385 21 The Cold War in Europe 406 22 Off the Beach: The United States, Latin America, and the Cold War 426 23 The United States and East Asia in the Postwar Era 446 24 Washington Quagmire: US Presidents and the Vietnam Wars –A Pattern of Intervention 464 25 The End of the Cold War 479 26 From the “Atomic Age” to the “Anti-Nuclear Age”: Nuclear Energy in Politics, Diplomacy, and Culture 501 PART IV ESSENTIAL READING 519 27 J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (1985) 521 28 Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (1995) 525 29 Samuel Lubell, The Future of American Politics (1952, 1956, 1965) 529 30 Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were (1992) 534 31 Alphonso Pinkney, The Myth of Black Progress (1984) 537 32 Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (1970) 540 33 Victor Navasky, Naming Names (1980) 545 34 Edward Said, Orientalism (1978) 550 Index 557
Stephen Lassonde
Robert O. Self and Thomas J. Sugrue
James T. Fisher
Susan G. Davis
Susan J. Douglas
Allen Tullos
Erika Doss
Patrick N. Allitt
Richard H. King
Matthew Frye Jacobson
Joshua B. Freeman
Kevin Gaines
Nancy MacLean
Beth Bailey
Van Gosse
David L. Chappell
Ian Tyrrell
Julian E. Zelizer
Ellen Schrecker
Mary L. Dudziak
Carolyn Eisenberg
Greg Grandin
James I. Matray
David Hunt
David S. Painter and Thomas S. Blanton
J. Samuel Walker
Alan Brinkley
Linda Gordon
Nelson Lichtenstein
Elaine Tyler May
Robert E. Weems, Jr.
Robert Westbrook
Jon Wiener
Melani McAlister
Subject Areas: History [HB]
