Sarah Camacho January 10, 2010

Intellectual and Cultural History Field Prelims List

Historiographical Essays, Reviews, and Debates 1. Thomas Bender, “Intellectual and Cultural History” in Eric Foner, ed., The New American History (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997): 181-202. 2. Casey Nelson Blake et. al., “Symposium: Intellectual History in the Age of Cultural Studies,” Intellectual History Newsletter (1996): 3-68. 3. Robert Darnton, “Intellectual and Cultural History” in Michael Kammen, ed., The Past Before Us: Contemporary Historical Writing in the U.S. (1980): 279-91. 4. Donald Kelley, The Descent of Ideas: The History of Intellectual History (Aldershot, Hants, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002).

Overviews and Reference Works 5. Richard W. Fox and Jim Kloppenberg, eds., Companion to American Thought (Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1995). 6. Lewis Perry, Intellectual Life in America: A History (: Watts, 1984).

Becoming Modern 7. Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of (New York: Penguin, 1982). 8. Reinhard Bendix, “Tradition and Modernity Reconsidered,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 9 No. 3 (Apr. 1967):292-346. 9. Casey Nelson Blake Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank and Lewis Mumford (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1990) 10. George Cotkin, Reluctant : American Thought and Culture, 1880-1900 (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992). 11. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Cambridge, Mass.: Press, 1993) 12. David Hollinger, “The Knower and the Artificer” American Quarterly 39 (Spring, 1987): 37- 55. 13. Andreas Huyssen, “Mapping the Postmodern,” New German Critique 33 (Autumn 1984): 5- 52. 14. – The True and Only Heaven: Progress and its Critics (New York: Norton, 1991) 15. James Livingston, Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997) 16. Dean MacCannell, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class (New York: Schocken Books, 1975). 17. Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001). 18. “Roundtable: Louis Menand’s The Metaphysical Club and the Problem of Pragmatism” Intellectual History Newsletter 24 (2002).

1 19. Robert Richardson, William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006). 20. Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (New York: Hill and Wang, 1982). 21. Robert Westbrook, John Dewey and American Democracy (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991).

The Search for Authenticity 22. Philip Deloria, Playing Indian (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998) 23. Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (New York: Norton, 1978). 24. William Leach, Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life (New York: Pantheon Books, 1999). 25. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1981). 26. Miles Orvell, The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989).

History and Memory 27. Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth About History (New York: Norton, 1995). 28. Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, ed., The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992). (introduction) 29. Lowenthal, David, The Past is a Foreign Country (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985). 30. Lowenthal, David, The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998). 31. Schama, Simon. Landscape and Memory (New York: Vintage, 1996).

Ideas of Nature 32. Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 1995). 33. RWB Lewis, The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955). 34. Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1964). 35. Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967). 36. Robert D. Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire: A Biography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995). 37. Aaron Sachs, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (New York: Viking, 2006). 38. Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (New York: Vintage, 1957 [1950]) 39. Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1973).

2 Urbanization and Suburbanization 40. Avila, Eric. Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006). 41. Davarian Baldwin, Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007). 42. Thomas Bender, Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1975). 43. Thomas Bender, Community and Social Change in America. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,1978) 44. Thomas Bender, New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in , from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time (New York: Knopf, 1987). 45. Thomas Bender, The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea (New York: The New Press, 2002). 46. Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Suburban Alchemy: 1960s New Towns and the Transformation of the American Dream (Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2001). 47. Paul Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order, 1820-1920 (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1978) 48. George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. (New York: Basic Books, 1994) 49. , City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (New York: Vintage Books, 1992). 50. William Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of its Mexican Past (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004). 51. Adam Green, Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). 52. Dianne Harris, “Clean and Bright and Everyone White: Seeing the Postwar Domestic Environment in the United States,” in Dianne Harris and D. Fairchild Ruggers, ed., Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007). 53. Matthew D. Lassiter, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006). 54. Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (New York: Basic Books, 1988) 55. Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001). 56. Becky Nicolaides, My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002) 57. Susan Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market (New York: Pantheon, 1989).

Political 58. James Kloppenberg, Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986). 59. James Kloppenberg, The Virtues of Liberalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). 60. Richard Pells – The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age (New York: Harper & Row, 1985).

3 61. Edward Purcell – The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of Value (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1973). 62. Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 1998) 63. Daniel T. Rodgers, Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics since Independence (New York: Basic Books, 1987).

Cultural History Classics 64. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism Rev. ed. (London and New York: Verso, 2006 [1983]). 65. Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996). 66. Michel de Certeau, trans. by Steven Rendall, The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984) 67. Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (New York: Basic Books, 1984). 68. Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (London and New York: Verso, 1996). 69. Eric Lott, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). 70. David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London and New York: Verso, 1991).

Intellectuals and Popular Culture 71. Jean-Christophe Agnew, Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550-1750 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986). 72. Herbert Gans, Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste (New York: Basic Books, 1974). 73. Sarah Igo, The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007). 74. Lawrence Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988). 75. Andrew Ross, No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture (New York: Routledge, 1989).

Intellectual History Classics 76. Thomas Bender, Thomas Haskell and David Brion Davis, The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992). 77. David Hollinger, Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (New York: Basic Books, 1995). 78. Daniel Horowitz, The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004). 79. Daniel Horowitz, The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875-1940 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985). 80. Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976).

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