American Exceptionalism / / Deborah L. Madsen.
American Exceptionalism provides an accessible yet comprehensive historical account of one of the most important concepts underlying modern theories of American cultural identity. Deborah Madsen charts the contribution of exceptionalism to the evolution of the United States as an ideological and geo...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | BAAS Paperbacks : BAAS
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Origins: Exceptionalism and American Cultural Identity
- 2. Dispossession: Native American Responses to the Ideology of Exceptionalism
- 3. Exceptionalism in the Nineteenth Century
- 4. Annexation: Chicano Responses to the Ideology of Exceptionalism
- 5. Westerns and Westward Expansion
- 6. Contemporary Interpretations of Exceptionalism
- Appendix: El Plan £spiritual de Aztlán
- Bibliography
- Index