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A Brief History of American Culture
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"The discussion of each period is wide-ranging, analyzing movements and spotlighting major figures in politics and philosophy, law and literature, economics and education, jazz and journalism, science and civil rights. A readable, insightful overview of the underlying patterns that give shape to U.S. cultural history. Nonacademic readers will find Crunden's selective bibliographical essay helpful". -- Booklist
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Index
- Abernathy, Ralph 246
- abolitionism 82–6, 91
- Absalom, Absalom! 231, 233, 327
- abstract expressionism 275–80
- Acheson, Dean 253–4, 261, 264, 266
- Acres of Diamonds 133
- Adams, Brooks 229
- Adams, Charles 68
- Adams, Heniy 69, 229
- Adams, John 16, 36, 48, 63
- Adams, John Quincy 63–6, 252
- Adams, Samuel 20
- Addams, Jane 134–5, 136, 153, 217, 237
- Addison, Joseph 69
- Adler, Dankmar 215–6
- Adler & Sullivan 216
- Adorno, T.W. 200, 202
- Adventures of Augie March, The 288–90
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The 125
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The 125
- Agassiz, Louis 131
- Age of Reason, The 39
- Aiken, Conrad 229
- Air-Conditioned Nightmare, The 250–1
- Albany Regency 65
- Albers, Josef 279
- Aldington, Richard 192
- All the King’s Men 327
- Allegories of Reading 321
- Allston, Washington 69, 86, 103
- Ambassadors, The 170
- American, The 166
- American Art since 1900 318
- American Ornithology 101
- American revolution 29–31
- American Slavery as it is 94
- American System 64–5
- “American Way” 129
- Anderson, Sherwood 181, 229, 231
- Andrewes, Launcelot xvii
- Antinomian heresy 6
- Antioch College 92–3
- Anxious Object, The 318
- Apollinaire, Guillaume 276
- Appalachian Spring 226
- Architects Collaborative, The (TAC) 203
- Arminian heresy 24
- Armory Show 273–4
- Armstrong, Louis 208–10, 282
- Arnheim, Rudolf 201
- Arnold, Matthew ix
- Art of This Century 275–7
- Arts & Crafts Movement 217
- Ashbee, Charles 217
- Ashbeiy, John 318–9
- Audubon, Jean 99
- Audubon, John James 99–103
- Austen, Jane 72–3
- Authoritarian Personality, The 200
- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The 34, 173
- Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, The 171
- Bach, J.S. 308
- Bachman, Rev. John 100
- Bacon, Francis 31, 33, 45
- Bain, Alexander 145
- Baldwin, James 328
- Bank of the Unit...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Series
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue: England at the End of the Sixteenth Century
- I A Local Culture 1630–1815
- II A Sectional Culture 1815–1901
- III The Northern Nation From Religious to Capitalist Democracy, 1865–1917
- IV A National Culture 1901–1941
- V A Cosmopolitan Culture 1941-present
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index