Encyclopedia of American social history
By: Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, Peter W. Williams, editors.
Contributors: Cayton, Mary Kupiec.; Gorn, Elliott J., 1951-; Williams, Peter W.
Publisher: Scribner; Maxwell Macmillan Canada; Maxwell Macmillan International
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York; Toronto; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 2653
Subjects: Social history -- Encyclopedias; United States -- Social conditions -- Encyclopedias; United States -- Social life and customs -- Encyclopedias
Description: A combination of the scholarship of historians, and work in ethnology, gender study, geography, literature, religion, anthropology, and sociology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Native peoples prior to European arrival -- Native peoples and early European contacts -- American colonies through 1700 -- American colonies from 1700 to the Seven Years’ War -- American colonies from the Seven Years’ War through the revolution -- Early national period -- Antebellum era -- Sectional conflict, civil war, and reconstruction -- Gilded age, populism, and the era of incorporation -- Progressive era through the 1920s -- Great Depression and World War II -- Postwar period through the 1950s -- Modern America: the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s -- Old social history and the new -- Social history in Great Britain and continental Europe -- United States as interpreted by foreign observers -- Anthropological approaches to history -- Community studies -- American social and cultural geography -- Feminist approaches to social history -- Racial ideology -- Modernization theory and its critics -- Quantification and its critics -- Marxism and its critics -- Mentalité and the nature of consciousness -- Oral history -- Material culture studies -- Poststructural theory -- Race -- Ethnicity -- Social class -- Gender -- Sexual orientation -- Religion -- Regionalism -- Market revolution -- Urbanization -- Immigration -- Industrialization -- Rise and consolidation of bourgeois culture -- Society and corporate statism -- War -- American Indians of the east -- American Indians of the west -- English-speaking Protestants -- Scandinavians -- Dutch -- German speakers -- Iberian peoples -- French and French-Canadians -- Irish Catholics -- central and eastern Europeans -- Jews -- Southern Europeans -- African migration -- Antebellum African American culture -- Postbellum African American culture -- Latin Americans -- Asian Americans -- Middle Eastern peoples -- V. 2. New England -- New York metropolitan region -- Middle Atlantic region -- Ohio valley -- Great Lakes industrial region -- Upper Midwest -- Great plains -- Southern tidewater and Piedmont -- Appalachia -- Deep south -- Peninsular Florida -- Texas -- Southwest -- Mormon region -- Mountain west -- Pacific northwest and Alaska -- California -- Hawaii -- Natural environment: the north -- Natural environment: the south -- Natural environment: the west -- Geographical mobility -- Frontier -- Plantation -- Rural life in the north -- Rural life in the south -- Rural life in the west -- Village and town -- City -- Suburbs -- Landscapes -- Public architecture -- Commercial architecture -- Food ways -- Manners and etiquette -- Clothing and personal adornment -- Housing -- Culture of consumption -- Agriculture -- Slavery -- Household labor -- Labor: colonial times through 1820 -- Labor: the Jacksonian era through reconstruction -- Labor: the gilded age through the 1920s -- Labor: the Great Depression to the 1990s -- Business culture -- Wealth and income distribution -- Aristocracy of inherited wealth -- Women and work -- Minorities and work -- Professions -- V. 3. Mass culture and its critics -- Popular entertainment before the Civil War -- Sports through the nineteenth century -- Sports in the twentieth century -- Fraternal organizations -- Women’s organizations -- Travel and vacations -- Urban parks -- National parks and preservation -- Amusement and theme parks -- Nightlife -- Popular literature -- Folk song and folk music -- African American music -- Country and western music -- Popular music before 1950 -- Rock music -- Concert music -- Film -- Radio -- Television  -- Theater and musical theater -- Humor and comedy -- Journalism -- Parades, holidays, and public rituals -- Family structures -- Gender roles and relations -- Sexual behavior and morality -- Courtship, marriage, separation, and divorce -- Reproduction and parenthood -- Life stages -- Childhood and children -- Adolescence -- Old age -- Death -- Crime and punishment -- Racism -- Nativism, anti-Catholicism, and anti-Semitism -- Domestic violence -- Mental illness and psychiatry -- Alcohol and alcoholism -- Transients, migrants, and the homeless -- Prostitution -- Police and fire protection -- Military -- Peace movements -- Social reform movements -- Social work and philanthropy -- Communitarians and counterculturalists -- Socialist and communist movements -- Political culture -- Science as a profession -- Technology and social change -- Nuclear age -- Transportation and mobility -- Communications and information processing -- Medical profession -- Alternative medicine -- Public health -- Health care -- Literacy -- Print and publishing -- Intellectuals and the intelligentsia -- Clergy -- Urban cultural institutions -- Public education -- Alternative education -- Collegiate education -- Research university.