ATU Sligo /ATU St Angela's

go

Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

The Cambridge companion to modern American culture / edited by Christopher Bigsby.

Contributor(s): Bigsby, C. W. E. Prof [editor].
Series: Cambridge companions to culture.Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2006Description: xv, 496 pages ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780521841320; 9780521601092.Other title: Modern American culture.Subject(s): Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century | United States -- Civilization -- 20th century | United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century | United States -- Study and teachingDDC classification: 306.09730904
Contents:
1. Introduction: what, then, is the American? / Christopher Bigsby -- 2. The American century / Godfrey Hodgson -- 3. The regions and regionalism / Richard H. King -- 4. Immigration to the United States in the twentieth century / Roger Daniels -- 5. Religion in the United States in the twentieth century: 1900-1960 / Peter W. Williams -- 6. Shifting boundaries: religion and the United States: 1960 to the present / Wade Clark Roof and Nathalie Caron -- 7. The Hispanic background of the United States / Nicolás Kanellos -- 8. African Americans since 1900 / Werner Sollors -- 9. Asian Americans / James Kyung-Jin Lee -- 10. Women in the twentieth century / S.J. Kleinberg -- 11. Queer America / Robert McRuer -- 12. The United States, war, and the twentieth century / Kenneth P. O'Brien -- 13. The culture of the Cold War / Stephen J. Whitfield -- 14. Secret America: the CIA and American culture / Hugh Wilford -- 15. Vietnam and the 1960s / John Hellmann -- 16. New York City and the struggle of the modern / Eric Homberger -- 17. Music: sound: technology / William Brooks -- 18. African American music of the twentieth century / Paul Oliver -- 19. Hollywood cinema / Walter Metz -- 20. Popular culture / Paul Buhle -- 21. Theatre / Brenda Murphy -- 22. Society and the novel in twentieth-century America / Emory Elliott -- 23. "Preferring the wrong way": mapping the ethical diversity of US twentieth-century poetry / Tim Woods.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 306.09730904 BIG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0084119
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: what, then, is the American? / Christopher Bigsby -- 2. The American century / Godfrey Hodgson -- 3. The regions and regionalism / Richard H. King -- 4. Immigration to the United States in the twentieth century / Roger Daniels -- 5. Religion in the United States in the twentieth century: 1900-1960 / Peter W. Williams -- 6. Shifting boundaries: religion and the United States: 1960 to the present / Wade Clark Roof and Nathalie Caron -- 7. The Hispanic background of the United States / Nicolás Kanellos -- 8. African Americans since 1900 / Werner Sollors -- 9. Asian Americans / James Kyung-Jin Lee -- 10. Women in the twentieth century / S.J. Kleinberg -- 11. Queer America / Robert McRuer -- 12. The United States, war, and the twentieth century / Kenneth P. O'Brien -- 13. The culture of the Cold War / Stephen J. Whitfield -- 14. Secret America: the CIA and American culture / Hugh Wilford -- 15. Vietnam and the 1960s / John Hellmann -- 16. New York City and the struggle of the modern / Eric Homberger -- 17. Music: sound: technology / William Brooks -- 18. African American music of the twentieth century / Paul Oliver -- 19. Hollywood cinema / Walter Metz -- 20. Popular culture / Paul Buhle -- 21. Theatre / Brenda Murphy -- 22. Society and the novel in twentieth-century America / Emory Elliott -- 23. "Preferring the wrong way": mapping the ethical diversity of US twentieth-century poetry / Tim Woods.

Share