Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Note on Contributors; Introduction: The Next American Century?, Martin Halliwell and Catherine Morley; Part 1: Politics; 1. American Politics in the 1990s and 2000s, Dominic Sandbrook (Rothmere American Institute, Oxford); 2. American Leadership into the New Century, John Dumbrell (Durham University); 3. 9/11 and US Foreign Policy, David Ryan (University College Cork); 4. Three Variations on Liberalism, Peter Kuryla (Vanderbilt University); 5. The Rise of Postmodern Conservatism, Kevin Mattson (Ohio University); 6. US Propaganda, Nancy Snow (University of Southern California); Part 2: Society; 7. Contemporary Social Criticism, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn (Syracuse University); 8. Religion in Post-Secular America, Wilfred M. McClay (University of Tennessee); 9. The US and Globalization, Howard Brick (Washington University, St Louis); 10. The Future of Medicine, Christopher Thomas Scott (Stanford University); 11. Technology in the 21st Century, Carroll Pursell (Macquarie University, Australia); 12. America and the Environment, John Wills (University of Kent, Canterbury); Part 3: Culture; 13. Contemporary American Culture, Martin Halliwell (University of Leicester); 14. Cultural Pluralism and National Identity, Rebecca Tillett (University of East Anglia); 15. Writing in the Wake of 9/11, Catherine Morley (Oxford Brookes University); 16. American Ways of Seeing, Liam Kennedy (University College Dublin); 17. Television and Digital Media, Lynn Spigel and Max Dawson (Northwestern University); 18. Animation and Digital Culture, Paul Wells (Loughborough University); Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester. His most recent books include American Culture in the 1950s (2007) and The Constant Dialogue: Reinhold Niebuhr and American Intellectual Culture (2005).Catherine Morley is RCUK Academic Fellow in the Cultures of Modernism at Oxford Brookes University. She has recently published Epic Gone West: John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo (2008).