The Power of culture : critical essays in American history
More and more scholars are turning to cultural history in order to make sense of the American past. This volume brings together nine original essays by some leading practitioners in the field. The essays aim to exhibit the promise of a cultural approach to understanding the range of American experiences from the seventeenth century to the present. Expanding on the editors' pathbreaking The Culture of Consumption, the contributors to this volume argue for a cultural history that attends closely to language and textuality without losing sight of broad configurations of power that social and political history at its best has always stressed. The authors here freshly examine crucial topics in both private and public life. Taken together, the essays shed new light on the power of culture in the lives of Americans past and present. --Publisher description
Aufsatzsammlung
vi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226259543, 9780226259550, 0226259544, 0226259552
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Sherwood Anderson / Jackson Lears
Unlimn'd they disappear / Christopher P. Wilson
Early American murder narratives / Karen Halttunen
Intimacy on trial / Richard Wightman Fox
The class experience of mass consumption / Lizabeth Cohen
Between culture and consumption / Joan Shelley Rubin
Fighting for the American family / Robert Westbrook
Making time / Michael L. Smith
An atmosphere of effrontery / Casey Nelson Blake