Author: Alexander DeCondePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Patterns in American History
Author: Alexander DeCondePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Patterns in American History
Author: Alexander DeCondePublisher:
ISBN: 9780534002930
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Patterns in American History
Author: Patterns in American History
Author: Alexander De CondePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Interpretations of American History Vol. I
Author: Francis G. CouvaresPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684867737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Contrary to conventional wisdom, no area of study is outdated more quickly than history, and no time has been more turbulent for the discipline than our own. This classic point/counterpoint reader in American history, now in a completely revised and updated seventh edition, takes note of history's impermanence, giving voice to the new without disposing of the old. In ten lively chapters, essays by the editors introduce dialectical readings by distinguished historians on topics from Reconstruction to the present. The essays and readings address history's timeless questions: "Reconstruction: Change or Stasis?," "American Imperialism: Economic Expansion or Ideological Crusade?," and "The Civil Rights Movement: Top-Down or Bottom-Up?" New readings are included on African Americans, women, and immigrants. In the fray of debate, eminent historians from Samuel Hays and Alfred Chandler to John Lewis Gaddis, Walter LaFeber, and Kathryn Kish Sklar struggle to interpret the past. The editors'essays moderate.
Patterns for America
Author: Susan HegemanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400823226
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
In recent decades, historians and social theorists have given much thought to the concept of "culture," its origins in Western thought, and its usefulness for social analysis. In this book, Susan Hegeman focuses on the term's history in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. She shows how, during this period, the term "culture" changed from being a technical term associated primarily with anthropology into a term of popular usage. She shows the connections between this movement of "culture" into the mainstream and the emergence of a distinctive "American culture," with its own patterns, values, and beliefs. Hegeman points to the significant similarities between the conceptions of culture produced by anthropologists Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, and a diversity of other intellectuals, including Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Dwight Macdonald. Hegeman reveals how relativist anthropological ideas of human culture--which stressed the distance between modern centers and "primitive" peripheries--came into alliance with the evaluating judgments of artists and critics. This anthropological conception provided a spatial awareness that helped develop the notion of a specifically American "culture." She also shows the connections between this new view of "culture" and the artistic work of the period by, among others, Sherwood Anderson, Jean Toomer, Thomas Hart Benton, Nathanael West, and James Agee and depicts in a new way the richness and complexity of the modernist milieu in the United States.
Patterns in History
Author: David BebbingtonPublisher: Regent College Publishing
ISBN: 9781573831536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
American Cultural Patterns
Author: Edward C. StewartPublisher: Nicholas Brealey
ISBN: 0983955832
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
A fully revised edition of the seminal classic This classic study was originally written by Edward Stewart in 1972 and has become a seminal work in the field of intercultural relations. In this edition, Stewart and Milton J. Bennett have greatly expanded the analysis of American cultural patterns by introducing new cross-cultural comparisons and drawing on recent reseach on value systems, perception psychology, cultural anthropology, and intercultural communication. Beginning with a discussion of the issues relative to contact between people of different cultures, the authors examine the nature of cultural assumptions and values as a framework for cross-cultural analysis. They then analyze the human perceptual process, consider the influence of language on culture, and discuss nonverbal behavior. Central to the book is an analysis of American culture constructed along four dimentions: form of activity, form of social relations, perceptions of the world, and perception of the self. American cultural traits are isolated out, analyzed, and compared with parallel characteristics of other cultures. Finally, the cultural dimentions of communication and their implications for cross-cultural interaction are examined.
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Author: Gerald N. Grob