Just Like Us : : The American Struggle to Understand Foreigners / / Thomas Borstelmann.
Americans have long considered themselves a people set apart, but American exceptionalism is built on a set of tacit beliefs about other cultures. From the founding exclusion of indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans to the uneasy welcome of waves of immigrants, from republican disavowals of colon...
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Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- I. The Challenge of Contact with Foreigners
- II. Freedom: American Culture as Human Nature
- III. Inbound: Immigrants from Internal Threat to Incorporation
- IV. Lurking: Communists and the Threat of Captivity
- V. Outbound: U.S. Expansion Into Foreign Lands
- VI. Subversion: The Power of American Culture in a Global Era
- Conclusion: Not So Foreign After All
- Notes
- Index