A companion to American cultural history / edited by Karen Halttunen

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I : Early America -- Cultural encounters : Americans and Europeans / Peter C. Mancall -- Cultures of colonial settlement / Carla Gardina Pestana -- British America in the eighteenth century / Karin Wulf -- The Revolution and the early republic / Catherine E. Kelly -- Part II : The Nineteenth century -- Antebellum cultural history / James W. Cook -- Religion and reform / Lewis Perry -- Black culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Demetrius L. Eudell -- The Civil War in American culture / Alice Fahs -- The West / Ann Fabian -- The Gilded Age / Scott A. Sandage -- Immigration and ethnic culture / Hasia R. Diner -- Cultural watersheds in Fin de siècle America / Janet M. Davis -- Part III : The Twentieth century -- Consumer culture and mass culture / Charles F. McGovern -- Modernism / Joel Dinerstein -- Politics and culture in the 1930s and 1940s / Julia L. Foulkes -- The 1950s and 1960s / Daniel Belgrad -- The globalization of American culture / Petra Goedde -- Part IV : Thematic and methodological -- Cultural theory, dialogue, and American cultural history / George Lipsitz -- Situating visual culture / Sally M. Promey -- Material cultures / J. Ritchie Garrison -- Performance and display / M. Alison Kibler -- Gender and sexuality / Jane H. Hunter -- Race and ethnicity / Eric Avila -- Popular culture / Nan Enstad -- History and memory / David Glassberg -- Part V : The Cultural turn in other fields -- Culturalist approaches to intellectual history / Casey Nelson Blake -- The impact of the culture concept on social history / Lawrence B. Glickman -- Religious history and the cultural turn / Leigh E. Schmidt -- Political history and the tool of culture / Joanne B. Freeman -- The cultural history of foreign relations / Andrew J. Rotter

A Companion to American Cultural History offers a historiographic overview of the scholarship, with special attention to the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and an assessment of where it is currently headed.