Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an IdealMichael Kazin, Joseph A. McCartin Univ of North Carolina Press, 1 Ιαν 2012 - 288 σελίδες 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 from three continents, the twelve essays in this volume are divided into two sections. The first group of essays addresses the understanding of Americanism within the United States over the past two centuries, from the early republic to the war in Iraq. The second section provides perspectives from around the world in an effort to make sense of how the national creed and its critics have shaped diplomacy, war, and global culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Approaching a controversial ideology as both scholars and citizens, many of the essayists call for a revival of the ideals of Americanism in a new progressive politics that can bring together an increasingly polarized and fragmented citizenry. Contributors: Mia Bay, Rutgers University Jun Furuya, Hokkaido University, Japan Gary Gerstle, University of Maryland Jonathan M. Hansen, Harvard University Michael Kazin, Georgetown University Rob Kroes, University of Amsterdam Melani McAlister, The George Washington University Joseph A. McCartin, Georgetown University Alan McPherson, Howard University Louis Menand, Harvard University Mae M. Ngai, University of Chicago Robert Shalhope, University of Oklahoma Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University Alan Wolfe, Boston College |
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... believed his young land was destined to break the grip of feudal laws and customs, thus showing how individuals could free themselves from an irrational, often tyrannical past. During and just after the war for independence, such ...
... believed his young land was destined to break the grip of feudal laws and customs, thus showing how individuals could free themselves from an irrational, often tyrannical past. During and just after the war for independence, such ...
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... believed was swelling on both sides of the Atlantic.∑ Such figures initiated a vital countertradition. Since the antebellum era, dissidents have routinely cited the gap between America's utopian promise and its disappointing reality ...
... believed was swelling on both sides of the Atlantic.∑ Such figures initiated a vital countertradition. Since the antebellum era, dissidents have routinely cited the gap between America's utopian promise and its disappointing reality ...
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... believed that the nation's ideals were also under siege. With or without the urging of the Bush administration, citizens began flying the flag and, as in World War II, made ''God Bless America'' the surrogate national anthem. Neither ...
... believed that the nation's ideals were also under siege. With or without the urging of the Bush administration, citizens began flying the flag and, as in World War II, made ''God Bless America'' the surrogate national anthem. Neither ...
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Σελίδα 78 - We are Americans, not only by birth and by citizenship, but by our political ideals, our language, our religion, farther than that, our Americanism does not go. At that point, we are Negroes, members of a vast historic race that from the very dawn of creation has slept, but half awakening in the dark forests of its African fatherland. We are the first fruits of this new nation, the harbinger of that black to-morrow which is yet destined to soften the whiteness of the Teutonic to-day.
Σελίδα 154 - Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people; a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs...
Σελίδα 87 - This, then, is the end of his striving; to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.
Σελίδα 40 - But it is too clear for dispute, that the enslaved African race were not intended to be included, and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this declaration ; for if the language, as understood in that day, would embrace them, the conduct of the distinguished men who framed the Declaration of Independence would have been utterly and flagrantly inconsistent with...
Σελίδα 2 - For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us.
Σελίδα 94 - American Century." I say that the century on which we are entering— the century which will come out of this war— can be and must be the century of the common man. Perhaps it will be America's opportunity to suggest the freedoms and duties by which the common man must live.
Σελίδα 10 - The advance of human freedom, the great achievement of our time and the great hope of every time, now depends on us. Our Nation — -this generation — will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire; we will not falter; and we will not fail.
Σελίδα 78 - Romance nations stood for literature and art, and the other race groups are striving, each in its own way, to develop for civilization its particular message, its particular ideal, which shall help to guide the world nearer and nearer that perfection of human life for which we all long, that "one far off Divine event.
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