BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO HISTORY
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This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of the scholarship that has shaped our current understanding of the past. Each volume comprises between twenty‐five and forty essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. The aim of each volume is to synthesize the current state of scholarship from a variety of historical perspectives and to provide a statement on where the field is heading. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner, designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers. The Blackwell Companions to World History is a cornerstone of the overarching Companions to History series, covering World, British, American, and European History.
WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO AMERICAN HISTORY
This series provides essential and authoritative overviews of the scholarship that has shaped our present understanding of the American past. Edited by eminent historians, each volume tackles one of the major periods or themes of American history, with individual topics authored by key scholars who have spent considerable time in research on the questions and controversies that have sparked debate in their field of interest. The volumes are accessible for the non‐specialist, while also engaging scholars seeking a reference to the historiography or future concerns.
A Companion to the American Revolution
Edited by Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole
A Companion to 19th‐Century America
Edited by William L. Barney
A Companion to the American South
Edited by John B. Boles
A Companion to American Women’s History
Edited by Nancy Hewitt
A Companion to American Indian History
Edited by Philip J. Deloria and Neal Salisbury
A Companion to Post‐1945 America
Edited by Jean‐Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig
A Companion to the Vietnam War
Edited by Marilyn Young and Robert Buzzanco
A Companion to Colonial America
Edited by Daniel Vickers
A Companion to American Foreign Relations
Edited by Robert Schulzinger
A Companion to 20th‐Century America
Edited by Stephen J. Whitfield
A Companion to the American West
Edited by William Deverell
A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction
Edited by Lacy K. Ford
A Companion to American Technology
Edited by Carroll Pursell
A Companion to African‐American History
Edited by Alton Hornsby
A Companion to American Immigration
Edited by Reed Ueda
A Companion to American Cultural History
Edited by Karen Halttunen
A Companion to American Environmental History
Edited by Douglas Cazaux Sackman
A Companion to California History
Edited by William Deverell and David Igler
A Companion to American Military History
Edited by James Bradford
A Companion to the U.S. Civil War (2 volumes)
Edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean
A Companion to American Sport History
Edited by Steven A. Riess
A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign
Edited by Brad D. Lookingbill
A Companion to the History of American Science
Edited by Georgina M. Montgomery and Mark A. Largent
A Companion to First Ladies
Edited by Katherine A. S. Sibley
A Companion to Los Angeles
Edited by William Deverell and Greg Hise
A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Edited by Christopher McKnight Nichols and Nancy C. Unger
A Companion to American Legal History
Edited by Sally E. Hadden and Alfred L. Brophy
A Companion to U.S. Foreign Policy: 1776 to the Present (2 volumes)
Edited by Christopher R. W. Dietrich
A Companion to American Women’s History, Second Edition
Edited by Nancy A. Hewitt and Anne M. Valk
A Companion to American Religious History
Benjamin E. Park
A COMPANION TO AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL HISTORY
Edited by
R. Douglas Hurt
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
This edition first published 2022
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