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A concise companion to American studies /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rowe, John Carlos
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Series:Blackwell companions in cultural studies.
Subjects:
United States > Study and teaching.
United States > Civilization.
National characteristics, American > History.
United States > Historiography.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Foundations and Backgrounds
  • 1. Puritan Origins / Philip F. Gura
  • 2. Cultural Anthropology and the Routes of American Studies, 1851-1942 / Michael A. Elliott
  • 3. The Laboring of American Culture / Michael Denning
  • 4. Is Class an American Study? / Paul Lauter
  • 5. Religious Studies / Jay Mechling
  • 6. American Languages / Joshua L. Miller
  • pt. II Ethic Studies and American Studies
  • 7. Blood Lines and Blood Shed: Intersectionality and Differential Consciousness in Ethnic Studies and American Studies / George Lipsitz
  • 8. Native American Studies / John Gamber
  • 9. The Locations of Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies / Richard T. Rodriguez
  • 10. African American Studies / Jared Sexton
  • 11. Reckoning Nation and Empire: Asian American Critique / Lisa Lowe
  • pt. III The New American Studies
  • 12. Western Hemispheric Drama and Performance / Harilaos Stecopoulos
  • 13. Postnational and Postcolonial Reconfigurations of American Studies in the Postmodern Condition / Donald Pease
  • 14. Culture, US Imperialism, and Globalization / John Carlos Rowe
  • 15. Sugar, Sex, and Empire: Sarah Orne Jewett's The Foreigner and the Spanish-American War / Rebecca Walsh
  • 16. The Rapprochement of Technology Studies and American Studies / David E. Nye
  • 17. The World Wide Web and Digital Culture: New Borders, New Media, New American Studies / Matthias Oppermann
  • pt. IV Problems and Issues
  • 18. Regionalism / Kevin R. McNamara
  • 19. The West and Manifest Destiny / Deborah L. Madsen
  • 20. Canadian Studies and American Studies / Alyssa MacLean
  • 21. The US University under Siege: Confronting Academic Unfreedom / Henry A. Giroux
  • 22. Popular, Mass, and High Culture / Shelley Streeby.