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245 12 $aA brief history of American culture /$cRobert M. Crunden.
246 30 $aAmerican culture
250 $aFirst U.S. edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bParagon House,$c℗♭1994.
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500 $a"Published by Finnish Historical Society in Helsinki in 1990"--Title page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 333-352) and index.
505 0 $aPrologue: England at the end of the sixteenth century -- pt. 1. A local culture, 1630-1815. Boston, 1630-1776 -- Philadelphia, 1740-1800 -- Virginia, 1763-1815 -- pt. 2. A sectional culture, 1815-1901. Cultural nationalism, 1815-1865 -- The religious pressures on literature and politics, 1815-1876 -- The defeat of the South and the appeal of the West, 1815-1901 -- pt. 3. The Northern nation : from religious to capitalist democracy, 1865-1917. From social Darwinism to progressivism, 1865-1917 -- From anti-social Darwinism to pragmatism, 1865-1917 -- The preconditions for modern art, 1865-1904 --pt. 4. A national culture, 1901-1941. The reunion with Europe, 1901-1941 -- The indigenous arts, 1901-1941 -- pt. 5. A cosmopolitan culture, 1941-present. The recovery of American ideals, 1954-1965 -- The primacy of foreign policy, 1941-1977 -- A culture of outsiders, 1943-1958 -- The conservative hegemony, 1969-1992.
520 $aThe roots of today's "culture wars" can be found in the molding tensions of an American character, one that wasn't handed down by tradition or enforced by a government, but one that was shaped out of the mire of individuals, religious beliefs, communities, a newly formed democracy, capitalism and freedom, art and literature all prominently influencing the vast and uncharted young nation. The important cultural centers from 1630-1815 - Boston, Philadelphia, and Virginia - are highlighted through figures like Benjamin Franklin, "the rustic sage." An early America, "the playground of the European imagination," began to form its own intellectual, artistic, and political culture, where fresh ideas about democracy, rationality, nature, a benign God, flourished and America became the place where "it could happen." As the country expanded westward, from 1815-1901, a revival of conservative religion burst upon the scene. Protestantism, Presbyterianism, Methodism, Baptists, even groups like the Episcopalians and Roman Catholics saturated the culture and profoundly influenced its institutions, especially education. Reformers like Horace Mann and Charles Finney, Transcendentalists like Henry Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, all blazed the path toward abolitionism and supplied much of the energy to American cultural activity. The Civil War became a dividing point in American culture in ways that transcended its social and political impact. Social development went through profound changes; Darwinism, progressivism, and pragmatism secularized the prevailing thought and religious energies were channeled into economic activity and then into a political faith. In the early 1900s, cosmopolitanism turned American eyes to Europe, where many Americans experimented in art, literature, and philosophy: Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Pound, and Eliot. And America initiated its own indigenous cultural growth: jazz, George Gershwin, Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, William Faulkner, Frank Lloyd Wright, Eugene O'Neill. From 1941 to the present, America developed its own idealism, expressed in foreign policy, legal and political social policy, racial integration and civil rights, religious and moral activism, artistic and literary innovation. Crunden traces the pivotal figures who influenced the modern culture: William F. Buckley, the emergence of a conservative intellectual force; Arthur Schlesinger, the disintegration of liberalism; author T. Coraghessan Boyle, the crucial act of betrayal in the modern world; and John Cage (America's first performance artist) the evolution of modernism into post-modernism. America emerged as a citizen of the world, recognizably American, sophisticated and popular.
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