Contributor
Agnew, Jean-Christophe.
Imprint:Malden, MA : Blackwell, c2002.
Descriptionxvii, 584 p. ; 26 cm.
Note:Family and demography in postwar America: a hazard of new fortunes? / Stephen Lassonde. - Power of place: race, political economy, and identity in the postwar metropolis / Robert O. Self, Thomas J. Sugrue. - American religion since 1945 / James T. Fisher. - Time out: leisure and tourism / Susan G. Davis. - Mass media: from 1945 to the present / Susan J. Douglas. - What the traffic bares: popular music "back in the USA" / Allen Tullos. - Visual arts in post-1945 America / Erika Doss. - American intellectual history and social thought since 1945 / Patrick N. Allitt. - American political culture since 1945 / Richard H. King. - Hyphen nation: ethnicity in American intellectual and political life / Matthew Frye Jacobson. - Labor during the American century: work, workers, and unions since 1945 / Joshua B. Freeman. - Historiography of the struggle for black equality since 1945 / Kevin Gaines. - Postwar women's history: the "second wave" of the end of family wage? / Nancy MacLean. - Sexuality and the movements for sexual liberation / Beth Bailey. - Movement of movements: the definition and periodization of the new left / Van Gosse. - Triumph of conservatives in a liberal age / David L. Chappell. - Modern environmentalism / Ian Tyrrell. - Beyond the presidential synthesis: reordering political time / Julian E. Zelizer. - McCarthyism and the Red Scare / Ellen Schrecker. - Politics of "the least dangerous branch": the court, the constitution, and constitutional politics since 1945 / Mary L. Dudziak. - Cold War in Europe / Carolyn Eisenberg. - Off the beach: the United States, Latin America, and the Cold War / Greg Grandin. - United States and East Asia in the postwar era / James I. Matray. - Washington quagmire: US presidents and the Vietnam Wars - a pattern of intervention / David Hunt. - End of the Cold War / David S. Painter, Thomas S. Blanton. - From the "atomic age" to the "anti-nuclear age": nuclear energy in politics, diplomacy, and culture / J. Samuel Walker. - J. Anthony Lukas, Common ground: a turbulent decade in the lives of three American families (1985) / Alan Brinkley. - Charles Payne, I've got the light of freedom (1995) / Linda Gordon. - Samuel Lubell, The future of American politics (1952, 1956, 1965) / Nelson Lichtenstein. - Stephanie Coontz, The way we never were (1992) / Elaine Tyler May. - Alphonso Pinkney, The myth of black progess (1984) / Robert E. Weems, Jr. - Garry Wills, Nixon agonistes: the crisis of the self-made man (1970) / Robert Westbrook. - Victor Navasky, Naming names (1980) / Jon Wiener. - Edward Said, Orientalism (1978) / Melani McAlister.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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