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The Cambridge companion to modern American culture / edited by Christopher Bigsby [Texto impreso]

Contributor(s): Bigsby, C. W. E, (1941- ) [ed. lit.]Series: (Cambridge companions to culture)Publisher: Cambridge ; Madrid : Cambridge University Press, cop. 2006Description: XV, 496 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 978-0-521-60109-2 (rúst.)Other title: Modern American cultureSubject(s): Estados Unidos -- Situación social -- S. XX | Estados Unidos -- Vida intelectual -- S. XX | Estados Unidos -- Civilización -- S. XX
Contents:
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.
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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.

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