Identity and the failure of America [[electronic resource] ] : from Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror / / John Michael
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| Autore: |
Michael John <1953->
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| Titolo: |
Identity and the failure of America [[electronic resource] ] : from Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror / / John Michael
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.8 |
| 305.800973 | |
| Soggetto topico: | National characteristics, American |
| Nationalism - United States - History | |
| Group identity - United States - History | |
| Allegiance - United States - History | |
| Failure (Psychology) - United States - History | |
| Social justice - United States - History | |
| American literature - History and criticism | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Social conditions |
| United States Politics and government | |
| United States Intellectual life | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-294) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Failure of America and the Claims of Identity; PART I. FAILED VIRTUES; 1. Jefferson's Headache: Race and the Failure of a Benevolent Republic; 2. Ahab's Cannibals: Vicissitudes of Command and the Failure of Manly Virtue; PART II. FAILED SYMPATHIES; 3. Lydia Maria Child's Romance: Cosmopolitan Imagination and the Failure of Gender Reform; 4. John Brown's Identities: Nat Turner and the Fear of Just Deserts; PART III. FAILED JUDGMENT; 5. Emerson's Activism: The Trials and Tribulations of an American Citizen |
| 6. Douglass's Cosmopolitanism: American Empire and the Failure of Diplomatic RepresentationConclusion: American Identities and Global Terror; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | From Thomas Jefferson to John Rawls, justice has been at the center of America's self-image and national creed. At the same time, for many of its peoples-from African slaves and European immigrants to women and the poor-the American experience has been defined by injustice: oppression, disenfranchisement, violence, and prejudice. In Identity and the Failure of America, John Michael explores the contradictions between a mythic national identity promising justice to all and the realities of a divided, hierarchical, and frequently iniquitous history and social order. Through a series of insightfu |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Identity and the failure of America |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-5669-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782792203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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