A major three-volume bibliography, including an additional supplement, of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1900 and 1988.
In these ways , academic history itself fails to fit the chronology or polarity against which New American Studies is often defined . Since , too , the “ new ” view of culture ( as inclusive , fractured , and dynamic ) seems so ...
Maddox has brought together works by a distinguished group of scholars which provide a useful window into the history and the evolution of the practice of American studies from its early, formational days to the present.
Although the immediate subject of this book is American Studies, its ultimate concern is with the broad pattern of higher education in the United States.
"This book fills a long-felt need for a single work that can be used as a touchstone and launching pad for students of American studies at all levels.
John Carlos Rowe is professor of English at the University of California , Irvine . Critical American Studies Series University of Minnesota Press Printed in U.S.A. Cover design by Sheila Morris ...
Instead, the articles enter into a lively and challenging dialogue with one another. A major assessment of the state of the field, The Futures of American Studies is necessary reading for American Studies scholars. Contributors.
This definitive collection emphasizes how changing perspectives have enabled older concepts and debates to emerge in different contexts. American Studies provides new historical interpretations of both America and the study of America.
The publishers are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material: Excerpt from “Mending Wall” from THE POETRY OF ROBERT FROST edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1958 by Robert Frost, copyright 1967 by ...
At a critical moment, this book offers a richly textured historical perspective on where our notions of national knowledge have come from and where they may lead.
The volume is divided into four parts: Foundations and Backgrounds; Ethnic Studies and American Studies; The New American Studies; and Problems and Issues.