Autore	Russo David J
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2000
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (453 p.)
Disciplina	973/.07/2
Soggetto topico	National characteristics, American
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-313-00296-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910454892803321

Autore	Russo David J
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2000
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (453 p.)
Disciplina	973/.07/2
Soggetto topico	National characteristics, American
ISBN	9798400610820 9780313002960 0313002967
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover -- American History from a Global Perspective -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PROLOGUE: THE AMERICANS -- 1 The Native Tribes -- 2 The English Colonists -- 3 The Black African Slaves -- 4 The Other Americans -- 5 Multiethnic, Multiracial Americans -- 6 Conclusion -- PART I THE AMERICAN POLITY -- 7 Colonial Politics -- 8 The Revolution -- 9 The Constitution -- 10 Republicanism -- 11 Federalism -- 12 Constitutional Interpretation -- 13 Philosophical Positions -- 14 Governmental Structures -- 15 The Party System -- 16 Governmental Functions -- 17 Domestic Policy -- 18 Foreign Policy -- PART II AN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMY -- 19 The Environment -- 20 Territory -- 21 Occupation -- 22 Settlement -- 23 Transportation/Communication -- 24 General Economic Developments -- 25 Agricultural and Extractive Activity -- 26 Commercial and Industrial Activity -- 27 Public and Private Sectors -- PART III AMERICAN SOCIETY -- 28 Social Structure -- 29 The Family -- 30 Population Growth -- 31 Social Behavior -- 32 Social Reform -- PART IV AMERICAN CULTURE -- 33 Religion -- 34 Education -- 35 Thought/Science/Medicine -- 36 Art/Entertainment -- 37 Leisure/Recreation -- PART V AMERICAN COMMUNITIES AND IDENTITIES -- 38 The Changing Nature of Community -- 39 Rural Areas and Small Local Communities -- 40 Cities -- 41 Colonies and States -- 42 Regions -- 43 Subnational Forms of Identity -- 44 Nationalism -- Conclusion -- Bibliographical Essay -- THE NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE -- TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES -- The World -- Europe -- Asia -- Africa -- Middle and South America -- White Settler Societies -- The Anglo-American Connection -- Particular Subjects in a Transnational Perspective -- Revolution -- Nationalism -- Government Policy -- Family Life -- Slavery and Race -- Reform -- The Woman's Movement -- Cities. Index -- About the Author.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910974340003321

Autore	Harlan David (David Craig)
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chicago, Ill., : University of Chicago Press, 1997
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (326 p.)
Disciplina	973/.07/2
Soggetto topico	History - Methodology
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-06990-X 9786612069901 0-226-31615-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION ''It Hath No Relish if Salvation in It" -- CHAPTER ONE. Deeper into the Wilderness -- CHAPTER TWO. A People Blinded from Birth -- CHAPTER THREE. Doubts and Dispossessions -- CHAPTER FOUR. After Looking into the Abyss -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Return if the Moral Imagination -- CHAPTER SIX. A Choice of Inheritance -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Dream if a Common History -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Love and Objectivity -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
Record Nr.	UNISA-996248077303316

Autore	Hallock Thomas
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (311 p.)
Disciplina	973/.07/2
Soggetto topico	Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Historiography Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) - Historiography Environmental policy - United States - History Environmental policy - West (U.S.) - History Frontier and pioneer life in literature Pastoral literature, American - History and criticism Environmental literature - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8078-6165-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450702903321

Autore	Livingston James <1949, >
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Routledge, , 2001
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (235 p.)
Disciplina	306.0973 973/.07/2
Soggetto topico	Progressivism (United States politics) - History Pragmatism - History Feminism - United States - History Capitalism - United States - History Socialism - United States - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-135-95573-5 1-280-35506-9 0-203-90135-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Attitudes Toward History; Part 1. Pragmatism, Feminism, and the Politics of Historiography; 1. Modern Subjectivity and Consumer Culture: The Revenge of the New Woman; The Terms of Debate; Primal Scenes in American Historiography; Epistemology of Excess; 2. Fighting the "War of Position": The Politics of Pragmatism; Pragmatism as a Comic "Frame of Acceptance"; Cultural Criticism and Corporate Capitalism; Corporate Capitalism and Cultural Politics 3. The Strange Career of the "Social Self"From Royce to Wahl to Kojève; Jane Addams, Jessie Taft, and the "Social Claim"; Dewey and the Self's Determination; 4. Narrative Politics: Richard Rorty at the "End of Reform"; Marxism or Pragmatism?; Real or Cultural Politics?; Tragedy or Comedy?; Appendix: Memo to the Cultural Left, or, How to Be "Critical of 'the System' and Crazy about the Country"; Part 2. Escaping the "Economy of Heaven": William James at the Edges of Our Differences; 5. Hamlet, James, and the Woman Question; Reinstating the Vague; Father and Son; Difference and Equality The Worst Kind of Melancholy6. Unstiffening Our Theories: Pragmatism, Feminism, and the End(s) of Capitalism; The Gender of Modernity; Nietzsche, Butler, James; Marxism in Green, Feminism in Red, Populism in Drag; Corporate Personality, Bureaucratic Rationality, and Modern Feminism; Afterword: No Exit; Notes; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450807803321