Introduction / Joan W. Scott -- Religion, science, and the culture of medical practice in the American South, 1800-1870 / Steven M. Stowe -- Revisiting "A visit from St. Nicholas": the battle for Christmas in early nineteenth-century America / Stephen Nissenbaum -- Edgar Allan Poe detecting the city / Amy Gilman -- Knowledge and the marketplace / Donald M. Scott -- The culture of "Leg-work": the transformation of burlesque after the Civil War / Peter G. Buckley -- Imagining the city / James Gilbert -- "The smile that pays": the culture of traveling salesmen, 1880-1920 / Susan Strasser -- Organization as artifact: a study of technical innovation and management reform, 1893-1906 / Peter Dobkin Hall -- Child-world in the promised land / William Leach -- "The making of a new mind": American women and intellectual life in the 1920s / Joyce Antler -- Immigrant voices from the Federal Writers Project: the Connecticut ethnic survey, 1937-1940 / Laura Anker -- The comedy of love and the Querelle des femmes: Aristocratic satire on marriage / Christopher Lasch.
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