A Companion to American Cultural History

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