This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.
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.
"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.
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.
Native American Studies covers key issues such as the intimate relationship of culture to land; the nature of cultural exchange and conflict in the period after European contact; the unique relationship of Native communities with the United ...
See William Stivers, America's Confrontation with Revolutionary Change in the Middle East, 1948–83 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986). 60. W. W. Rostow, The Diffusion of Power: An Essay in Recent History (New York: Macmillan, 1972), ...
The essays here offer a comparative, multilingual, or multisited approach to ideas and representations of America.
This is a fast-expanding subject area, and Campbell and Kean's book will certainly be a staple part of any cultural studies student's reading diet.
This book presents the diverse, expansive nature of African American Studies and its characteristic interdisciplinarity.
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 ...