American Niceness : : A Cultural History / / Carrie Tirado Bramen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Bramen, Carrie Tirado,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 11 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: American Niceness and the Democratic Personality --; 1. Indian Giving and the Dangers of Hospitality --; 2. Southern Niceness and the Slave’s Smile --; 3. The Christology of Niceness --; 4. Feminine Niceness --; 5. The Likable Empire from Plymouth Rock to the Philippines --; NOTES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674982345; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674982345
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Carrie Tirado Bramen.

The cliché of the Ugly American—loud, vulgar, materialistic, chauvinistic—still expresses what people around the world dislike about their Yankee counterparts. Carrie Tirado Bramen recovers the history of a different national archetype—the nice American—which has been central to ideas of American identity since the nineteenth century.