{"product_id":"american-studies-9780520287730","title":"American Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Studies has long been a home for adventurous students seeking to understand the culture and politics of the United States. Despite being taught in universities around the world, American Studies has resisted developing a coherent methodology for fear of losing the flexibility and freedom to imagine new avenues of thought. But what if these fears are misplaced? Through a fresh look at the origins of the field, this book contends that a shared set of rules can offer a springboard to creativity. American Studies: A User's Guide offers readers a critical introduction to the history and methods of the field, useful strategies for interpretation, curation, analysis, and theory, and case studies of American Studies in practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a fun book that overwhelmingly proves quite dedicated to serious intellectual inquiry even when it goes for the cute way in to a topic or theme.\" * Society for US Intellectual History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Object of American Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE: HISTORIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 • History and Historiography\u003cbr\u003e 2 • Four American Studies Mixtapes\u003cbr\u003e 3 • An Institutional History of American Studies (Or, What’s the Matter with Mixtapes?)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO METHODS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 • Methods and Methodology\u003cbr\u003e 5 • Texts: An Interpretive Toolkit\u003cbr\u003e 6 • Archives: A Curatorial Toolkit\u003cbr\u003e 7 • Genres and Formations: An Analytical Toolkit\u003cbr\u003e 8 • Power: A Th eoretical Toolkit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE FROM JOTTING IT DOWN TO WRITING IT UP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9 • A Few Thoughts on Ideas and Arguments\u003cbr\u003e 10 • Dispenser: A Case Study\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402879246679,"sku":"9780520287730","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520287730.jpg?v=1730481760","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-studies-9780520287730","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}