Volker Depkat

American Exceptionalism

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• American Ways
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781538199954
• ISBN-10: 1538199955
• Artikelnr.: 70438460

Autorenporträt

By Volker Depkat

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 The American Land: Landscapes of Abundance, Wilderness, and
Beauty
Chapter 2 The West and the South: Exceptional Regions and Regions of
Exceptionalism
Chapter 3 Cities upon Hills: The Colonial Foundations of American
Exceptionalism
Chapter 4 Sacred Fire of Liberty: The American Revolution and the
Transformation of American Exceptionalism
Chapter 5 The American Way of Empire: Exceptionalism and U.S. Foreign
Policy
Chapter 6 Promissory Notes: Exceptionalism and African American
Self-Empowerment
Chapter 7 Perfectible Union: American Exceptionalism and Reform
Chapter 8 People of Plenty: American Exceptionalism and Affluence
Chapter 9 Crisis of Disorientation: Contested Exceptionalisms in
Contemporary America
Bibliographical Essay
Index
About the Author