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American Ways A History of American Cultures, 1865 to Present Volume II

by: Rader, Benjamin G.

American Ways A History of American Cultures, 1865 to Present Volume II

by: Rader, Benjamin G.

ISBN 13:
9780495030096
ISBN 10:
0495030090
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 04/01/2005
Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Enhance your understanding of American culture with AMERICAN WAYS: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CULTURES, 1865 TO PRESENT, VOLUME 11! This history text traces the developing cultural ways of Americans from the earliest times to the present and provides you with a map by which to understand and interpret America's cultural and social history.

Introduction

A Brief Note to the Reader

xii

Acknowledgments

xiii

THE WAYS OF THE MIDDLE CLASS

187

(34)

Middle-Class Family Ways

189

(14)

The Invention of the Victorian Family

190

(2)

The Middle-Class Home

192

(2)

The Separate Sphere of Women

194

(1)

Rearing Children

195

(1)

Middle-Class Sex Ways

196

(3)

Upper-Class Families

199

(3)

Conclusion

202

(1)

Middle-Class Cultural and Civic Life

203

(18)

The Middle-Class Conception of Culture

203

(1)

Acquiring Refinement

204

(3)

Refining Protestant Christianity

207

(2)

Acquiring Culture

209

(2)

The Value and Uses of Culture

211

(2)

Middle-Class Civic Life

213

(1)

The Creation of a Dense Network of Associations

214

(2)

The Progressive Movement

216

(3)

Conclusion

219

(2)

THE WAYS OF OTHERS

221

(34)

Immigrant Working Class Ways

223

(14)

Industrial Work Ways

224

(2)

Working-Class Ways of Leisure

226

(3)

Roman Catholicism and the New Americans

229

(3)

Protestant and Jewish Newcomers

232

(2)

The Issue of Assimilation Recapitulated

234

(1)

Conclusion

235

(2)

African American, White Southern, and Native American Ways

237

(18)

The Ways of the Newly Freed People

238

(2)

Preserving and Constructing a Southern Cultural Identity

240

(3)

The New Racial Settlement

243

(3)

``An Unspeakable Sadness''

246

(1)

Native American Responses

247

(2)

The Culmination of the White Assault

249

(2)

The West of the White Imagination

251

(1)

Conclusion

252

(3)

THE ORIGINS OF MODERN WAYS

255

(30)

Consumer Culture and the Quest for Excitement

257

(16)

An Economy of Mass Production

258

(2)

Strategies of Enticement

260

(1)

A New Middle Class

261

(3)

The Quest for Excitement

264

(4)

The Strenuous Life

268

(2)

Changing Conceptions of Manliness and Femininity

270

(2)

Conclusion

272

(1)

The Origins of the Modern Intellectual and Artistic World

273

(12)

Shaking the Religious Foundations

274

(2)

Secularization and Education

276

(2)

Shaking the Intellectual Foundations

278

(2)

Shaking the Literary and Artistic Foundations

280

(4)

Conclusion

284

(1)

THE COMING OF AGE OF MODERN WAYS

285

(36)

Modern Ways in Times of Prosperity and Depression

287

(18)

The City as the Home of Modern Ways

287

(3)

The ``New'' Woman as a Symbol of Modern Ways

290

(4)

Ways at War

294

(3)

Looking Backward and Forward in the Great Depression

297

(3)

Individualism (or Liberalism) Reformulated

300

(3)

Conclusion

303

(2)

``The American Way of Life''

305

(16)

``Freedom''

305

(3)

Anticommunism

308

(4)

Religion

312

(1)

Consumption and Life in the Suburbs

313

(5)

Conclusion

318

(3)

THE CULMINATING MOMENT OF MODERN WAYS

321

(34)

The Rights Revolution

323

(12)

African Americans and the Rights Revolution

323

(5)

Women and the Rights Revolution

328

(4)

The Supreme Court and the Rights Revolution

332

(1)

Conclusion

333

(2)

Individualism Unleashed

335

(20)

Concern for the Fate of the Individual

335

(3)

The Youth Culture

338

(1)

The Youth Revolt

339

(3)

The Sexual Revolution

342

(2)

Unleashing Art

344

(2)

The Long Sixties' Impact on Religion

346

(2)

The New Individualism

348

(1)

Concern for the Individual Psyche

349

(2)

The Quest for Self-Sufficiency

351

(2)

Conclusion

353

(2)

COMING TO TERMS WITH MODERN WAYS

355

(34)

Turning Inward

357

(14)

Disengagement

357

(2)

Opposition to Government

359

(3)

The Removal of Restraints on Money

362

(2)

Families and Friends

364

(2)

Emotional-Support Groups

366

(3)

Niche Cultures

369

(1)

Conclusion

370

(1)

``A Very Stewpot of Separate Identities''

371

(18)

The Sunbelt

372

(3)

African Americans

375

(2)

Women

377

(3)

The New Immigrants

380

(4)

The Debate over Multiculturalism

384

(1)

The Renewal of Cultural Warfare

385

(1)

Fields of Conflict

386

(1)

Conclusion

387

(2)

A Selective Bibliography

389

(8)

Photo Credits

397

(2)

Index

399

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