Introduction 1§§Part I: Specific Topics in Anglo-American Area Studies 5§§1 The Where (geography) . 6§§2 The When (history) 31§§3 The ABCs of British and American Life (special issues) . ??§§4 Uniform-ity and Plural-ity (education) 67§§5 Queendom and Republicracy (political life) 87§§6 The Pound Stops Here for a Commonwealth for All?§§(economics and international relations) 108§§7 Who, Where From, and Where To (minorities and§§immigration) 129§§8 Weddings, Baptisms, and Funerals in The City on the§§Hill (religion) 156§§9 From National Parks to Natural Disasters§§(environmental concerns) 184§§10 Paper, Waves, and Bytes (media) ??§§11 Bread and Circuses (the arts, leisure time activities§§and sports, food) 201§§Part II: Ways of Looking at Anglo-American Cultural Studies 227§§12 Identity: Who's the Us, Who's the Them? 229§§13 Power: Those Who Got It and Those That Ain't 242§§14 Gender: Wo-Men 256§§15 New Media Was, Is, and Always Will Be the Message? . 270§§16 Culture with a Big 'C' and with a Little 'c' in§§Anglo-American Cultural Studies 283§§Conclusion 307§§Recommendations for Further Reading§§(a partly annotated bibliography) . 312§§Index 319§§List of Illustrations 329