American Studies in a Moment of Danger

by George Lipsitz

Book Overview

A forthright look at the future of the discipline in the wake of immense social changes.

What becomes of "national knowledge" in our age of globalization? If dramatic changes in technology, commerce, and social relations are undermining familiar connections between culture and place, what happens to legacies of learning that put the nation at the center of the study of history, culture, language, politics, and geography?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816639493
• ISBN13: 9780816639496
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"