At a critical moment, this book offers a richly textured historical perspective on where our notions of national knowledge have come from and where they may lead.
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The volume is divided into four parts: Foundations and Backgrounds; Ethnic Studies and American Studies; The New American Studies; and Problems and Issues.
In The New American Exceptionalism, pioneering scholar Donald E. Pease traces the evolution of these state fantasies and shows how they have shaped U.S. national identity since the end of the cold war, uncovering the ideological and ...
Post-Nationalist American Studies seeks to revise the cultural nationalism and celebratory American exceptionalism that tended to dominate American studies in the Cold War era, adopting a less insular, more transnational approach to the ...
4 Roy's attack on Emile Nelligan in this context has been often cited: “faire des poésies où le sentiment est purement livresque, et soutenu de réminiscences toutes françaises, comme, par exemple, il arrivait trop souvent à ce pauvre et ...
Instead, the articles enter into a lively and challenging dialogue with one another. A major assessment of the state of the field, The Futures of American Studies is necessary reading for American Studies scholars. Contributors.
See William Stivers, America's Confrontation with Revolutionary Change in the Middle East, 1948–83 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986). 60. W. W. Rostow, The Diffusion of Power: An Essay in Recent History (New York: Macmillan, 1972), ...
The essays here offer a comparative, multilingual, or multisited approach to ideas and representations of America.
Howard Temperley, Christopher Bigsby ... The Jungle Peak immigration year: 1,285,000 immigrants enter United States; Henry Adams, Education of Henry Adams; William James, Pragmatism First Model T Ford; Gertrude Stein, Three Lives Armory ...