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A Companion to Post-1945 America

ISBN: 978-1-405-12319-8

May 2008

Wiley-Blackwell

608 pages

Description
A Companion to Post-1945 America is an original collection of 34 essays by key scholars on the history and historiography of Post-1945 America.
  • Covers society and culture, people and movements, politics and foreign policy
  • Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic
  • Includes book review section on essential readings
About the Author
Jean-Christophe Agnew is Professor of American Studies and History at Yale University. He is the author of Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought (1989) and of a number of articles on the history of market society and consumer culture.

Roy Rosenzweig is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History and director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. He is the author, co-author, and co-editor of a number of books, including The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (1998), which won the Historic Preservation Book Prize for Best Book of 1998.

Features

  • Contains 34 original essays by leading experts in Post-1945 American history.
  • Covers society and culture, people and movements, politics and foreign policy.
  • Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic.
  • Includes a book review section on essential readings.