Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction: What, then, is the American?
- 2 The American century
- 3 The regions and regionalism
- 4 Immigration to the United States in the twentieth century
- 5 Religion in the United States in the twentieth century: 1900-1960
- 6 Shifting boundaries: religion and the United States: 1960 to the present
- 7 The Hispanic background of the United States
- 8 African Americans since 1900
- 9 Asian Americans
- 10 Women in the twentieth century
- 11 Queer America
- 12 The United States, war, and the twentieth century
- 13 The culture of the Cold War
- 14 Secret America: the CIA and American culture
- 15 Vietnam and the 1960s
- 16 New York City and the struggle of the modern
- 17 Music: sound: technology
- 18 African American music of the twentieth century
- 19 Hollywood cinema
- 20 Popular culture
- 21 Theatre
- 22 Society and the novel in twentieth-century America
- 23 “Preferring the wrong way”: mapping the ethical diversity of US twentieth-century poetry
- Index
- Series List
Frontmatter
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction: What, then, is the American?
- 2 The American century
- 3 The regions and regionalism
- 4 Immigration to the United States in the twentieth century
- 5 Religion in the United States in the twentieth century: 1900-1960
- 6 Shifting boundaries: religion and the United States: 1960 to the present
- 7 The Hispanic background of the United States
- 8 African Americans since 1900
- 9 Asian Americans
- 10 Women in the twentieth century
- 11 Queer America
- 12 The United States, war, and the twentieth century
- 13 The culture of the Cold War
- 14 Secret America: the CIA and American culture
- 15 Vietnam and the 1960s
- 16 New York City and the struggle of the modern
- 17 Music: sound: technology
- 18 African American music of the twentieth century
- 19 Hollywood cinema
- 20 Popular culture
- 21 Theatre
- 22 Society and the novel in twentieth-century America
- 23 “Preferring the wrong way”: mapping the ethical diversity of US twentieth-century poetry
- Index
- Series List
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- The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture , pp. i - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006