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Author | : Jack P. Greene |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807861774 |
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Jack Greene explores the changing definitions of America from the time of Europe's first contact with the New World through the establishment of the American republic. Challenging historians who have argued that colonial American societies differed little from those of early modern Europe, he shows that virtually all contemporary observers emphasized the distinctiveness of the new worlds being created in America. Rarely considering the high costs paid by Amerindians and Africans in the construction of those worlds, they cited the British North American colonies as evidence that America was for free people a place of exceptional opportunities for individual betterment and was therefore fundamentally different from the Old World. Greene suggests that this concept of American societies as exceptional was a central component in their emerging identity. The success of the American Revolution helped subordinate Americans' long-standing sense of cultural inferiority to a more positive sense of collective self that sharpened and intensified the concept of American exceptionalism.
Author | : Patricia Annette Dunlap Radigan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download The Intellectual Construction of America and the Expansion of Female Education in the Early Republic, 1780-1820 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Volker Depkat |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 153810119X |
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The idea that America is exceptional, whether because of its founding creed, natural abundance, or Protestant origins, has been the subject of fierce debate going back to the founding. Rather than argue for one side or the other, Volker Depkat explores the diverse ways in which Americans have described their country as exceptional. Describing how narratives of exceptionalism have never been a purely American affair, Depkat shows how, for example, European, African, and Asian immigrants projected their own dreams and nightmares onto the American screen, contributing to the intellectual construction of America. In fact, the different groups living in America have described American exceptionalism in such differing terms that there hardly ever was a shared understanding as to what these exceptional experiences were and how to interpret them. What has unified the disparate exceptionalist narratives, Depkat explains, is their insistence on America's universalist and future-oriented way of life. In engaging and lucid prose, Depkat offers general readers and students of American history an invaluable lens through which they can evaluate for themselves the merits of the many ways in which Americans have understood their country as exceptional.
Author | : Lewis Perry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : |
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Download Intellectual Life in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jack P. Greene |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2010-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139492934 |
Download The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the debates that led to the American Revolution, this volume argues that the empire had long exhibited a high degree of constitutional multiplicity, with each colony having its own discrete constitution. Contending that these constitutions cannot be conflated with the metropolitan British constitution, it argues that British refusal to accept the legitimacy of colonial understandings of the sanctity of the many colonial constitutions and the imperial constitution was the critical element leading to the American Revolution.
Author | : W. E. B. Du Bois |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1134 |
Release | : 2014-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019938567X |
Download Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history. Black Reconstruction in America tells and interprets the story of the twenty years of Reconstruction from the point of view of newly liberated African Americans. Though lambasted by critics at the time of its publication in 1935, Black Reconstruction has only grown in historical and literary importance. In the 1960s it joined the canon of the most influential revisionist historical works. Its greatest achievement is weaving a credible, lyrical historical narrative of the hostile and politically fraught years of 1860-1880 with a powerful critical analysis of the harmful effects of democracy, including Jim Crow laws and other injustices. With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an introduction by David Levering Lewis, this edition is essential for anyone interested in African American history.
Author | : Andrew Taylor |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2010-07-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1584659157 |
Download Thinking America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A penetrating literary and philosophical examination of major figures in the development of American intellectual culture, from Emerson to Santayana
Author | : G. Edward White |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195139655 |
Download Tort Law in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
G. Edward White's 'Tort Law in America' is regarded as a standard in the field. Concise, accessible and wide-ranging, White's work represents a major work of legal scholarship, providing an enduring intellectual history of American tort law.
Author | : Harold Stearns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Download America and the Young Intellectual Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Finn Pollard |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 0415963737 |
Download The Literary Quest for an American National Character Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The sections of this volume are entitled: 'A Farmer Asks a Question and a Scientist Creates a Model', 'Hugh Henry Brackenridge and the Dogma of Balance', 'The Defining Moment: Washington Irving and a History of New York', 'The Fragments: Minor Writers (c1810-1824)', and 'The Illusion Ascendant'.