A Companion to 20th-Century America [Paperback]

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• Contains 29 original essays by leading scholars, each assessing the past and current state of American scholarship
  
• Includes thematic essays covering topics such as religion, ethnicity, conservatism, foreign policy, and the media, as well as essays covering major time periods
  
• Identifies and discusses the most influential literature in the field, and suggests new avenues of research, as the century has drawn to a close

Notes on the contributors viii

Introduction xiii
Stephen J. Whitfield

PART I: TIME-FRAMES

1 1900 - 1914 3
Eugene E. Leach

2 1914 - 1929 19
Glen Gendzel

3 1929 - 1941 36
Michael E. Parrish

4 1941 - 1950 54
Allan M. Winkler

5 1950 - 1960 71
Richard M. Fried

6 1960 - 1974 87
Jama Lazerow

7 1974 - 1988 102
Leo P. Ribuffo

8 1988 - 2000 123
Steven M. Gillon

PART II: PLACES

9 The South 141
Raymond Arsenault

10 The West 163
Anne M. Butler

11 The Environment 179
Paul S. Sutter

12 The City 198
Jon C. Teaford