Books in the Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History series

Provides a solid foundation for understanding American agricultural history and offers new directions for researchA Companion to American Agricultural History addresses the key aspects of America's complex agricultural past from 8,000 BCE to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Bringing together more than thirty original essays by both established and emerging scholars, this innovative volume presents a succinct and accessible overview of American agricultural history while delivering a state-of-the-art assessment of modern scholarship on a diversity of subjects, themes, and issues.The essays provide readers with starting points for their exploration of American agricultural history--whether in general or in regards to a specific topic--and highlights the many ways the agricultural history of America is of integral importance to the wider American experience. Individual essays trace the origin and development of agricultural politics and policies, examine changes in science, technology, and government regulations, offer analytical suggestions for new research areas, discuss matters of ethnicity and gender in American agriculture, and more. This Companion:* Introduces readers to a uniquely wide range of topics within the study of American agricultural history* Provides a narrative summary and a critical examination of field-defining works* Introduces specific topics within American agricultural history such as agrarian reform, agribusiness, and agricultural power and production* Discusses the impacts of American agriculture on different groups including Native Americans, African Americans, and European, Asian, and Latinx immigrants* Views the agricultural history of America through new interdisciplinary lenses of race, class, and the environment* Explores depictions of American agriculture in film, popular music, literature, and artA Companion to American Agricultural History is an essential resource for introductory students and general readers seeking a concise overview of the subject, and for graduate students and scholars wanting to learn about a particular aspect of American agricultural history.

A Companion to African American History is a collection of original and authoritative essays arranged thematically and topically, covering a wide range of subjects from the seventeenth century to the present day.

A Companion to the History of American Science offers a collection of essays that give an authoritative overview of the most recent scholarship on the history of American science.* Covers topics including astronomy, agriculture, chemistry, eugenics, Big Science, military technology, and more* Features contributions by the most accomplished scholars in the field of science history* Covers pivotal events in U.S. history that shaped the development of science and science policy such as WWII, the Cold War, and the Women's Rights movement

A collection of original essays exploring the history of the various American religious traditions and the meaning of their many expressionsThe Blackwell Companion to American Religious History explores the key events, significant themes, and important movements in various religious traditions throughout the nation's history from pre-colonization to the present day. Original essays written by leading scholars and new voices in the field discuss how religion in America has transformed over the years, explore its many expressions and meanings, and consider religion's central role in American life.Emphasizing the integration of religion into broader cultural and historical themes, this wide-ranging volume explores the operation of religion in eras of historical change, the diversity of religious experiences, and religion's intersections with American cultural, political, social, racial, gender, and intellectual history. Each chronologically-organized chapter focuses on a specific period or event, such as the interactions between Moravian and Indigenous communities, the origins of African-American religious institutions, Mormon settlement in Utah, social reform movements during the twentieth century, the growth of ethnic religious communities, and the rise of the Religious Right. An innovative historical genealogy of American religious traditions, the Companion:* Highlights broader historical themes using clear and compelling narrative* Helps teachers expose their students to the significance and variety of America's religious past* Explains new and revisionist interpretations of American religious history* Surveys current and emerging historiographical trends* Traces historical themes to contemporary issues surrounding civil rights and social justice movements, modern capitalism, and debates over religious libertiesMaking the lessons of American religious history relevant to a broad range of readers, The Blackwell Companion to American Religious History is the perfect book for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in American history courses, and a valuable resource for graduate students and scholars wanting to keep pace with current historiographical trends and recent developments in the field.

A collection of essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of 'technology' in America. It covers some of the important features of American technology, including developments in automobiles, television, and computing. It includes discussions of how technologies interact with race, gender, and class in American society.

A Companion to American Cultural History offers a historiographic overview of the scholarship, with special attention to the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and an assessment of where it is currently headed.

* An authoritative historiographical volume that surveys the state of U.S. diplomatic history. *25 essays cover the entire history of American foreign relations from the colonial period to the present. * Discusses the major sources and analyzes the most influential books and articles in the field.

A Companion to the Vietnam War contains twenty-four definitive essays on America's longest and most divisive foreign conflict. It represents the best current scholarship on this controversial and influential episode in modern American history. * Highlights issues of nationalism, culture, gender, and race.

* Contains 34 original essays by leading experts in Post-1945 American history. * Covers society and culture, people and movements, politics and foreign policy. * Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. * Includes a book review section on essential readings. .

A Companion to Colonial America consists of twenty-three original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial history. Each essay surveys the scholarship and prevailing interpretations in these key areas, discussing the differing arguments and assessing their merits.

* Contains 25 original essays by leading experts in the history of the American West * Covers the culture, politics, and environment of the American West through periods of migration, settlement, and modernization * Discusses Native Americans and their conflicts and integration with American settlers.

A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower brings new depth to the historiography of this significant and complex figure, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date depiction of both the man and era. * Thoughtfully incorporates new and significant literature on Dwight D.

A Companion to American Technology is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of "technology" in America.

A Companion to 20th-Century America is an authoritative survey of the most important topics and themes of twentieth-century American history and historiography.

The most important collection of essays on American Women's HistoryThis collection incorporates the most influential and groundbreaking scholarship in the area of American women's history, featuring twenty-three original essays on critical themes and topics. It assesses the past thirty years of scholarship, capturing the ways that women's historians confront issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. This second edition updates essays related to Indigenous women, slavery, the American Revolution, Civil War, the West, activism, labor, popular culture, civil rights, and feminism. It also includes a discussion of laws, capitalism, gender identity and transgender experience, welfare, reproductive politics, oral history, as well as an exploration of the perspectives of free Blacks and migrants and refugees.Spanning from the 15th through the 21st centuries, chapters show how historians of women, gender, and sexuality have challenged established chronologies and advanced new understandings of America's political, economic, intellectual and social history.This edition also features a new essay on the history of women's suffrage to coincide with the 100th anniversary of passage of the 19th Amendment, as well as a new article that carries issues of women, gender and sexuality into the 21st century.* Includes twenty-three original essays by leading scholars in American women's, gender and sexuality history* Highlights the most recent scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field* Substantially updates the first edition with new authors and topics that represent the expanding fields of women, gender, and sexuality* Engages issues of race, ethnicity, region, and class as they shape and are shaped by women's and gender history* Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including Native women, colonial law and religion, slavery and freedom, women's activism, work and welfare, culture and capitalism, the state, feminism, digital and oral history, and moreA Companion to American Women's History, Second Edition is an ideal book for advanced undergraduates and graduate students studying American/U.S. women's history, history of gender and sexuality, and African American women's history. It will also appeal to scholars of these areas at all levels, as well as public historians working in museums, archives, and historic sites.

This volume of original essays by leading scholars is an innovative, thorough introduction to the history and culture of California from its inception to the present day.

This work presents interpretations of the wide range of historical experiences in 19th-century America. Twenty-seven scholars demonstrate how 19th-century American historiography has evolved, summarize current historical research, and assess the future direction of scholarship.

Consists of 23 original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial history. Each essay surveys the scholarship and prevailing interpretations in these key areas, discussing the differing arguments and assessing their merits.

A Companion to the Vietnam War contains twenty-four definitive essays on America's longest and most divisive foreign conflict. It represents the best current scholarship on this controversial and influential episode in modern American history. * Highlights issues of nationalism, culture, gender, and race.

A guide to the themes, events and concepts of the major turning point in early American history. Containing coverage before, during, and after the war, as well as the effect of the Revolution on a global scale, it is suitable for students, scholars, or general readers seeking a reference to the field.

A Companion to 20th-Century America is an authoritative survey of the most important topics and themes of twentieth-century American history and historiography.

Surveys and evaluates the most important writing on American Southern history, including analyses of the various interpretive schools and a range of subjects and interpretations for every important era. Topics covered include slavery, politics, the Civil War and race relations.

Offers an introduction to the history of the American West. This title covers such topics as industrialism, women, Native Americans, exploration, religion, politics, and art. It is suitable for students, scholars, and all interested readers of the history of the American West.

A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction addresses the key topics and themes of the Civil War era, with 23 original essays by top scholars in the field. * An authoritative volume that surveys the history and historiography of the U.S.

An authoritative volume of historiographical essays that survey the state of US diplomatic history. The essays cover the entire range of the history of American foreign relations from the colonial period to the present.

* Contains 34 original essays by leading experts in Post--1945 American history. * Covers society and culture, people and movements, politics and foreign policy. * Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. * Includes a book review section on essential readings. .

Presents a collection of essays that cover a wide range of subjects since the seventeenth century. This book includes discussions of globalization, region, migration, gender, class and social forces that make up the broad cultural fabric of African American history.