American studies : essays in honour of Marcus Cunliffe / edited by Brian Holden Reid and John White ; foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
1991.
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 378 pages : portrait ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Marcus Cunliffe : a pastmaster / Brian Holden Reid and John White
- On first looking into Cunliffe's Weems's Washington ; or, the story of America / Robert Lawson-Peebles
- 'To America we will go : British Methodist preacher in the United States, 1800-60 / Louis Billington
- Competing scenarios : antebellum images of American society after emancipation / Howard Temperley
- Alexis de Tocqueville and the coming of the American Civil War / Hugh Brogan
- 'Political arrangements, social absurdities and wondrous contrivances' : British men of letters on nineteenth-century America / Peter J. Parish
- The Southern Military tradition, 1812-61 / Bruce Collins.
- A rogue among detectives : transcendentalism, irony and American culture / Malcolm Bradbury
- Carl Becker and the Historical imagination / Richard Crockatt
- The repeated return of the vanishing Indian / Mick Gidley
- F. Scott Fitzgerald : the 'personal stuff' / Arnold Goldman
- Kansas City, Pendergast and All that jazz / John White
- No Englishman can understand : fairness and minimum wage laws in British and America, 1923-38 / Vivien Hart
- Tensions in the supreme command : anti-Americanism in the British Army, 1939-45 / Brian Holden Reid
- Journeys to American character : margaret Meed, David Potter and David Riesman / Rupert Wilkinson
- From American history to American studies? A snapshot of British writing on American history in the 1980s / Michael Heale.