A Companion to 20th-Century America

by Whitfield, Stephen J.

• ISBN13: 9781405156523
• ISBN10: 140515652X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-05
• 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	p. viii
Introduction	p. xiii
Time-frames
1900-1914	p. 3
1914-1929	p. 19
1929-1941	p. 36
1941-1950	p. 54
1950-1960	p. 71
1960-1974	p. 87
1974-1988	p. 102
1988-2000	p. 123
Places
The South	p. 141
The West	p. 163
The Environment	p. 179
The City	p. 198
People
Immigration	p. 215
Ethnicity	p. 233
Labor	p. 249
Race	p. 266
Women	p. 283
The Polity and the Economy
The Military	p. 301
Foreign Policy	p. 317
Consumption	p. 336
Law	p. 358
Business	p. 377
Images and "isms"
Journalism and Broadcasting	p. 397
Religion	p. 413
Ideas	p. 430
Science and Technology	p. 449
Conservatism	p. 462
Liberalism	p. 478
The Visual Arts	p. 493
Bibliography	p. 510
Index	p. 557
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