A Companion to 20th-Century America

by Whitfield, Stephen J.

• ISBN13: 9780631211006
• ISBN10: 0631211004
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to 20th-Century America is an authoritative survey of the most important topics and themes of twentieth-century American history and historiography. Written by an expert in the field, each essay assesses the past and current state of American scholarship, covering topics such as foreign policy, religion, labor, ethnicity, law, the military, and the media. Additional essays cover major time periods: from the beginning of the century through the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, up to the closing of the century. An editorial introduction and further reading lists for each chapter round out this clearly written, exciting overview of twentieth-century American history. Students, scholars, and general readers should find this an indispensable work of reference and source of information.

Author Biography

Stephen J. Whitfield is Professor of American Studies at Brandeis University where he holds the Max Richter Chair in American Civilization. Among other works, he is the author of Into the Dark: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism (1980), A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till (1988), and The Culture of the Cold War (1991, 1996). He has published widely in modern political and intellectual history, and particularly in American Jewish history.

Table of Contents

Notes on the contributors	viii
Introduction	xiii
Stephen J. Whitfield
PART I: TIME-FRAMES
1 1900-1914	3	(16)
Eugene E. Leach
2 1914-1929	19	(17)
Glen Gendzel
3 1929-1941	36	(18)
Michael E. Parrish
4 1941-1950	54	(17)
Allan M. Winkler
5 1950-1960	71	(16)
Richard M. Fried
6 1960-1974	87	(15)
Jama Lazerow
7 1974-1988	102	(21)
Leo P. Ribuffo
8 1988-2000	123	(18)
Steven M. Gillon
PART II: PLACES
9 The South	141	(22)
Raymond Arsenault
10 The West	163	(16)
Anne M. Butler
11 The Environment	179	(19)
Paul S. Sutter
12 The City	198	(17)
Jon C. Teaford
PART III: PEOPLE
13 Immigration	215	(18)
Roger Daniels
14 Ethnicity	233	(16)
Hasig R. Diner
15 Labor	249	(17)
Joseph A. McCartin
16 Race	266	(17)
Reed Ueda
17 Women	283	(18)
June Sochen
PART IV: THE POLITY AND THE ECONOMY
18 The Military	301	(16)
Jerry Cooper
19 Foreign Policy	317	(19)
Justus D. Doenecke
20 Consumption	336	(22)
Charles McGovern
21 Law	358	(19)
Norman L. Rosenberg
22 Business	377	(20)
David B. Sicilia
PART V: IMAGES AND "ISMS"
23 Journalism and Broadcasting	397	(16)
James L. Baughman
24 Religion	413	(17)
Charles H. Lippy
25 Ideas	430	(19)
Wilfred M. McClay
26 Science and Technology	449	(13)
Carroll Pursell
27 Conservatism	462	(16)
Edward S. Shapiro
28 Liberalism	478	(15)
Hans Vorlander
29 The Visual Arts	493	(17)
Douglas Tallack
Bibliography	510	(47)
Index	557