| Description |
3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Vol. 1: PT. 1. EARLY AMERICA -- Overview -- European and indigenous encounters -- Africa and America -- Colonial images of Europe and America -- Puritanism as a cultural and intellectual force -- Education in early America -- The material shape of early American life -- Anglo-American religious traditions -- Philosophy from Puritanism to the Enlightenment -- Popular belief and expression -- The fine arts in colonial America -- Mercantilism -- Law (colonial) -- Conflicting ideals of colonial womanhood -- Race as a cultural category -- PT. 2. REVOLUTION, CONSTITUTION, AND THE EARLY REPUBLIC TO 1838 -- Overview -- Liberalism and republicanism -- Federalists and antifederalists -- Jacksonian ideology -- Whig ideology -- The New England theology from Edwards to Bushnell -- The transformation of American religion, 1776-1838 -- The Black church : invisible and visible -- The classical vision -- Agrarianism and the agrarian ideal in early America -- The arts in the republican era -- The print revolution -- Rhetoric and belles lettres -- Prophetic Native American movements -- PT. 3. ANTEBELLUM, CIVIL WAR, AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1838-1877 -- Overview -- Slavery and race -- Slave culture and consciousness -- Thought and culture in the free Black community -- Expansion and empire -- Antislavery -- Reform institutions -- Evangelical thought -- Moral philosophy -- American romanticism -- Transcendentalism -- Communitarianism -- Women in the public sphere, 1838-1877 -- Domesticity and sentimentalism -- Secession, war, and union -- Popular intellectual movements, 1833-1877 -- Southern intellectual life -- Science and religion -- PT. 4. COMMERCIAL AND NATIONAL CONSOLIDATION, 1878-1912 -- Overview -- Urban cultural institutions -- Patterns of reform and revolt -- Gender, social class, race, and material life -- Gender and political activism -- Manhood -- Realism in art and literature -- The transformation of philosophy -- The rise of biblical criticism and challenges to religious authority -- The struggle over evolution -- Racialism and racial uplift -- PT. 5. WORLD WAR I, THE 1920s, AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION -- Overview -- Industrialism and its critics -- Cultural modernism -- Anti-modern discontent between the wars -- The popular arts -- The Harlem Renaissance -- The behavioral and social sciences -- Pragmatism and its critics -- Radical alternatives -- The artist and the intellectual in the New Deal -- Religious liberalism, fundamentalism, and neo-orthodoxy -- The athlete as cultural icon. |
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Vol. 2: PT. 6. WORLD WAR II AND THE 1950s -- Overview -- World war and Cold War -- The culture and critics of the suburb and the corporation -- Women and family in the suburban age -- The design of the familiar -- The professional ideal -- The ideal of spontaneity -- The culture of self-improvement -- Franco-American cultural encounters and exchanges -- The world according to Hollywood -- Analytic philosophy -- PT. 7. THE 1960s and 1970s -- Overview -- Race, rights, and reform -- Countercultural visions -- Popular culture in the public arena -- Intellectuals and ideology in government -- Second-wave feminism -- The discovery of the environment -- Vietnam as a cultural crisis -- PT. 8. THE REAGAN ERA TO THE PRESENT -- Overview -- Resurgent conservatism -- Poststructuralism and postmodernism -- Postmodernism in the arts -- The struggle for the academy -- Multiculturalism in theory and practice -- New philosophical directions -- PT. 9. CULTURAL GROUPS -- African Americans -- American expatriate artists abroad -- Artistic, intellectual, and political refugees -- Asian Americans -- Evangelical Protestants -- Gays and lesbians -- German speakers -- Irish Americans -- Italian Americans -- Jews -- Latinas and Latinos in the United States -- Native Americans -- Roman Catholics -- Whites and the construction of whiteness -- Women -- Working class -- PT. 10. GEOGRAPHY AND CULTURAL CENTERS -- The city -- Pastoralism and the rural ideal -- Regionalism -- New England -- The frontier and the West -- The idea of the South -- Appalachia -- The Middle West -- The Southwest -- Borderlands -- New York City -- Chicago -- Philadelphia -- Antebellum Charleston -- The San Francisco Bay area -- Detroit -- Cincinnati -- New Orleans -- Southern California -- Utah and Mormonism -- PT. 11. NATURE, HUMAN NATURE, AND THE SUPERNATURAL -- The natural world -- God, nature, and human nature -- Humanitarianism -- Intelligence and human difference -- Psychology, the mind, and personality -- Anthropology and cultural relativism -- PT. 12. THE POLITICAL ORDER -- Nationalism -- Democracy -- Liberalism -- Conservatism -- Constitutional thought -- International relations and connections -- Social reform -- Socialism and radical thought -- Populism -- Anti-statism. |
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Vol. 3: PT. 13. THE ECONOMIC ORDER -- Success -- Technology -- Political economy -- Consumerism -- Welfare -- Twentieth-century economic thought -- PT. 14. THE SOCIAL ORDER AND SOCIAL IDENTITY -- Individualism and the self -- Family -- Sexuality -- Gentility and manners -- Ethnicity : early theories -- Ethnicity and race -- Race -- Class -- PT. 15. THE PURSUIT AND EXCHANGE OF KNOWLEDGE -- The scientific ideal -- The humanities -- The social sciences -- The visual arts -- Education -- Law and the American mind -- Medicine -- Disciplines and their institutionalization -- The role of the intellectual -- Authorship, intellectual property, and copyright -- Elite vs. popular culture -- Culture for mass audiences -- The American university -- Foundations and philanthropy -- Learned societies and professional associations -- Government -- Organized religion -- Literary reviews and "little magazines" -- Textbooks -- Technological enclaves -- Salons, coffeehouses, conventicles, and taverns -- Lyceums, chautauquas, and institutes for useful knowledge -- Almanacs and ephemeral literature -- Libraries -- Museums -- The Internet and electronic communication -- Journals of opinion -- PT. 16. THE ARTS AND CULTURAL EXPRESSION -- Books -- Journalism -- Periodicals -- Architecture -- Film -- Photography -- Painting -- Sculpture -- Television -- Radio -- Advertising -- Rhetoric -- Public murals -- Monuments and memorials -- Memory -- Drama -- Fiction -- Poetry -- Music -- Dance -- Fashion -- PT. 17. METHODS AND CONCEPTS -- The history of ideas -- Biography -- Myth and symbol -- Hermeneutics and American historiography -- Marxist approaches -- Gender -- Cultural studies -- Social construction of reality -- History and the study of the past -- Weberian approaches. |
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United States -- Civilization -- Encyclopedias.
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United States -- Intellectual life -- Encyclopedias.
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United States -- Social conditions -- Encyclopedias.
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United States -- Politics and government -- Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Cayton, Mary Kupiec.
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Williams, Peter W.
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| Added Title |
Encyclopedia of American cultural and intellectual history |
| ISBN |
0684805618 set alkaline paper |
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9780684805610 set alkaline paper |
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0684805588 v. 1 alkaline paper |
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9780684805580 v. 1 alkaline paper |
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0684805596 v. 2 alkaline paper |
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068480560X v. 3 alkaline paper |
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