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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815018303321

Titolo

Americanism : new perspectives on the history of an ideal / / edited by Michael Kazin & Joseph A. McCartin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8078-6971-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KazinMichael <1948->

McCartinJoseph Anthony

Disciplina

973

Soggetti

National characteristics, American

United States Politics and government

United States Foreign relations

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

See your Declaration Americans!!! : abolitionism, Americanism, and the revolutionary tradition in free black politics / Mia Bay -- Anticipating Americanism : an individual perspective on republicanism in the Early Republic / Robert Shalhope -- True Americanism : Progressive Era intellectuals and the problem of liberal nationalism / Jonathan Hansen -- The American century of Henry R. Luce / Stephen J. Whitfield -- The unlovely residue of outworn prejudices : the Hart-Celler Act and the politics of immigration reform, 1945-1965 / Mae M. Ngai -- In the shadow of Vietnam : liberal nationalism and the problem of war / Gary Gerstle -- Religious diversity : the American experiment that works / Alan Wolfe -- Americanism against American empire / Alan McPherson -- Japanese intellectuals define America, from the 1920s through World War II / Jun Furuya -- The promise of freedom, the friend of authority : American culture in postwar France / Louis Menand -- French views of American modernity : from text to subtext / Rob Kroes -- Suffering sisters? American feminists and the problem of female genital surgeries / Melani McAlister.

Sommario/riassunto

What is Americanism? The contributors to this volume recognize Americanism in all its complexity--as an ideology, an articulation of the nation's rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political



language, and a cultural style imbued with political meaning. In response to the pervasive vision of Americanism as a battle cry or a smug assumption, this collection of essays stirs up new questions and debates that challenge us to rethink the model currently being exported, too often by force, to the rest of the world.Crafted by a cast of both rising and renowned intellectuals