The Labyrinth of North American Identities /

The Labyrinth of North American Identities / / Philip Resnick.

What exactly does it mean to be North American? Europeans have been engaged in a long-running debate about the meaning and nature of Europe. The Labyrinth of North American Identities generates a similar discussion in the context of North America: what do we learn about North America as a unit and i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Resnick, Philip ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©2012
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (160 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • One. Quetzalcoatl's Heirs
  • Two. Chosen Peoples
  • Three. Trajectories to Independence
  • Four. "Language Has Always Been the Perfect Instrument of Empire"
  • Five. Manifest Destiny and the Fate of a Continent
  • Six. Market Society and Possessive Individualism
  • Seven. Democracy and Its Discontents
  • Eight. The Protean State
  • Nine. New World Utopias and Dystopias
  • Ten. An Archipelago of Regions
  • Eleven. A North American Civilization?
  • Twelve. Dwellers of the Labyrinth
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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