This book traces how early Americans imagined what a 'nation' meant during the first fifty years of the country's existence.
This important book addresses the ways race has both helped and hindered Americans in determining national identity. Contributors consider race and American nationalism from a variety of historical and disciplinary vantage points.
In After Nationalism, Samuel Goldman trains a sympathetic but skeptical eye on the trend, highlighting the deep challenges that face any contemporary effort to revive social cohesion at the national level.
In this expanded new edition, he includes and in-depth analysis of the domestic component of both the American creed and the American antithesis. Barack Obama's improbable election to the presidency illustrates well the first strand.
In the late nineteenth century, New York's Tammany Hall was controlled by “Honest John” Kelly, Richard Croker, and Charles F. Murphy, while Chicago was run by equally colorful characters—“Hinky Dink” Kenna and “Bathhouse” John ...
This book explores the competition between them in relation to major contemporary developments-political democratization, large-scale immigration and unruly migration, fears of political disintegration, the rise of American capitalism and ...
In this cultural history of the origins of the Cold War, John Fousek argues boldly that American nationalism provided the ideological glue for the broad public consensus that supported U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War era.
Nation Into State: The Shifting Symbolic Foundations of American Nationalism
Gerstle''s capacity for revisionism, synthesis, and engaged writing reminds me of Richard Hofstadter, C. Van Woodword, and Warren Sussman. With this book, he enters their league.
Jean H. Baker has noted this aspect of partisan ritual in “The Ceremonies of Politics: Nineteenth-Century Rituals of National Affirmation,” in William J. Cooper et al., eds., A Master's Due: Essays in Honor of David Herbert Donald ...
But, it is also a truism that it could not have been done without a lot of help from others. ... To Alan McPherson, Jason Parker, Max Paul Friedman, Peter Kornbluh, Bradley Coleman, Halbert Jones, Andy Johns, Ted Keiffer, Erin Mahan, ...