Publisher's Synopsis
A Companion to American Cultural History offers a historiographic overview of the scholarship, with special attention to the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and an assessment of where it is currently headed.
- 30 essays explore the history of American culture at all analytic levels
- Written by scholarly experts well-versed in the questions and controversies that have activated interest in this burgeoning field
- Part of the authoritative Blackwell Companions to American History series
- Provides both a chronological and thematic approach: topics range from British America in the Eighteenth Century to the modern day globalization of American Culture; thematic approaches include gender and sexuality and popular culture
