At the Center
American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4840333 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James T Kloppenberg (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 406-407 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaab195 |
| OpenAlex | W3201302861 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
A mountain of scholarship on mid-twentieth-century American culture has accumulated in recent decades, leaving nonspecialists and students to wonder how they can ever ascend its steep, rocky slopes. Synthetic overviews, offering more detailed and sophisticated analysis than surveys and a wider view than monographs, are indispensable resources. The publication of At the Center, an especially fine example of this underappreciated genre, is reason to celebrate. At the Center complicates long-standing conceptions of the years after World War II as an era of consensus and conformity. Recent scholars have shown that most of the dramatic developments of the 1960s, including the Black freedom struggle, second-wave feminism, the counterculture, and both the New Left and the New Right, originated in earlier decades. Casey Nelson Blake, Daniel H. Borus, and Howard Brick emphasize those emerging voices of dissent, but they also stress the era's deep yearning for universal truths and unchanging essential
Art history · Center (category theory · Counterculture · Dissent · Media studies · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Wonder · American Political and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |