Enemyship [[electronic resource] ] : democracy and counter-revolution in the early republic / / Jeremy Engels

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457376403321
• Autore: Engels Jeremy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-62895-148-6; 1-60917-210-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 p.)
• Collana: Rhetoric and public affairs series
• Disciplina: 973.3/1
• Soggetti: Political culture - United States - History - 18th century; Enemies - Political aspects - United States - History; Democracy - United States - History - 18th century; Nationalism - United States - History - 18th century; Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History - 18th century; Political socialization - United States - History - 18th century; Electronic books.; United States Politics and government 1783-1809; United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction, the second American Revolution -- How enemyship became common sense -- The dilemmas of American nationalism -- The army of the Constitution -- The contract of blood -- Conclusion, Hobbes's gamble and Franklin's warning.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Declaration of Independence is usually celebrated as a radical document that inspired revolution in the English colonies, in France, and elsewhere. In Enemyship, however, Jeremy Engels views the Declaration as a rhetorical strategy that outlined wildly effective arguments justifying revolution against a colonial authority--- and then threatened political stability once independence was finally achieved. Enemyship examines what happened during the latter years of the Revolutionary War and in the immediate post-Revolutionary period, when the rhetorics and en

We are what we eat [[electronic resource] ] : ethnic food and the making of Americans / / Donna R. Gabaccia ; [illustrations by Susan Keller]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454673303321
• Autore: Gabaccia Donna R. <1949->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1998
• ISBN: 0-674-03744-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p. ) : ill
• Disciplina: 394.120973
• Soggetti: Food habits - United States; Ethnic food industry - United States; Ethnic attitudes - United States; Electronic books.; United States Social life and customs
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-267) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: What Do We Eat? -- 1. Colonial Creoles -- 2. Immigration, Isolation, and Industry -- 3. Ethnic Entrepreneurs -- 4. Crossing the Boundaries of Taste -- 5. Food Fights and American Values -- 6. The Big Business of Eating -- 7. Of Cookbooks and Culinary Roots -- 8. Nouvelle Creole -- Conclusion: Who Are We? -- Sources -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Ghulam Bombaywala sells bagels in Houston. Demetrios dishes up pizza in Connecticut. The Wangs serve tacos in Los Angeles. How ethnicity has influenced American eating habits—and thus, the make-up and direction of the American cultural mainstream—is the story told in We Are What We Eat. It is a complex tale of ethnic mingling and borrowing, of entrepreneurship and connoisseurship, of food as a social and political symbol and weapon—and a thoroughly entertaining history of our culinary tradition of multiculturalism. The story of successive generations of Americans experimenting with their new neighbors’ foods highlights the marketplace as an important arena for defining and expressing ethnic identities and relationships. We Are What We Eat follows the fortunes of dozens of enterprising immigrant cooks and grocers, street hawkers and restaurateurs who have ; cultivated and changed the tastes of native-born Americans from the seventeenth century to the present. It also tells of the mass corporate production of foods like spaghetti, bagels, corn chips, and salsa, obliterating their ethnic identities. The book draws a surprisingly peaceful picture of American ethnic relations, in which “Americanized” foods like Spaghetti-Os happily coexist with painstakingly pure ethnic dishes and creative hybrids. Donna Gabaccia invites us to consider: If we are what we eat, who are we? Americans’ multi-ethnic eating is a constant reminder of how widespread, and mutually enjoyable, ethnic interaction has sometimes been in the United States. Amid our wrangling over immigration and tribal differences, it reveals that on a basic level, in the way we sustain life and seek pleasure, we are all multicultural.