Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction xi
Karen Halttunen
Part I Early America 1
1. Cultural Encounters: Americans and Europeans 3
Peter C. Mancall
2. Cultures of Colonial Settlement 17
Carla Gardina Pestana
3. British America in the Eighteenth Century 32
Karin Wulf
4. The Revolution and the Early Republic 46
Catherine E. Kelly
Part II The Nineteenth Century 63
5. Antebellum Cultural History 65
James W. Cook
6. Religion and Reform 79
Lewis Perry
7. Black Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 95
Demetrius L. Eudell
8. The Civil War in American Culture 110
Alice Fahs
9. The West 125
Ann Fabian
10. The Gilded Age 139
Scott A. Sandage
11. Immigration and Ethnic Culture 154
Hasia R. Diner
12. Cultural Watersheds in Fin de Siècle America 166
Janet M. Davis
Part III The Twentieth Century 181
13. Consumer Culture and Mass Culture 183
Charles F. McGovern
14. Modernism 198
Joel Dinerstein
15. Politics and Culture in the 1930s and 1940s 214
Julia L. Foulkes
16. The 1950s and 1960s 230
Daniel Belgrad
17. The Globalization of American Culture 246
Petra Goedde
Part IV Thematic and Methodological Approaches 263
18. Cultural Theory, Dialogue, and American Cultural History 265
George Lipsitz
19. Situating Visual Culture 279
Sally M. Promey
20. Material Cultures 295
J. Ritchie Garrison
21. Performance and Display 311
M. Alison Kibler
22. Gender and Sexuality 327
Jane H. Hunter
23. Race and Ethnicity 341
Eric Avila
24. Popular Culture 356
Nan Enstad
25. History and Memory 371
David Glassberg
Part V The Cultural Turn in Other Fields 381
26. Culturalist Approaches to Intellectual History 383
Casey Nelson Blake
27. The Impact of the Culture Concept on Social History 396
Lawrence B. Glickman
28. Religious History and the Cultural Turn 406
Leigh E. Schmidt
29. Political History and the Tool of Culture 416
Joanne B. Freeman
30. The Cultural History of Foreign Relations 425
Andrew J. Rotter
Index 437

A Companion to American Cultural History offers ahistoriographic overview of the scholarship, with special attentionto the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and anassessment of where it is currently headed.
* 30 essays explore the history of American culture at allanalytic levels
* Written by scholarly experts well-versed in the questions andcontroversies that have activated interest in this burgeoningfield
* Part of the authoritative Blackwell Companions to AmericanHistory series
* Provides both a chronological and thematic approach: topicsrange from British America in the Eighteenth Century to the modernday globalization of American Culture; thematic approaches includegender and sexuality and popular culture