books about: exceptionalism

books about: exceptionalism

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Exceptionalism

American Exceptionalism and Human Rights

Princeton University Press, 2005

With the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, the most controversial question in world politics fast became whether the United States stands within the order of international law or outside it. Does America still play by the rules it helped create? American Exceptionalism and Human Rights addresses this question as it applies to U.S. ...

Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture, and the American Left
Richard Iton

The University of North Carolina Press, 2000

A number of arguments have been made to explain the relative weakness of the American Left. A preference for individualism, the effects of prosperity, and the miscalculations of different components of the Left, including the labor movement, have been cited, among other factors, as possible explanations for this puzzling aspect of American ...

American Exceptionalism
Deborah L. Madsen

University Press of Mississippi, 1998

Exceptionalism, the notion that Americans have a distinct and special destiny different from that of other nations, permeates every period of American history. It is the single most powerful force in forming the American identity. In American Exceptionalism Deborah L. Madsen traces this powerful theory from its origins in Puritan and ...

Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism (Critical American Studies)

David W. Noble

University of Minnesota Press, 2002

Excellent Scholarly Work
In Death of a Nation, David Noble examines America's frequently-shifting foundational myths. This book offers an analysis of the ways in which artists, writers, and historians participated in building and changing American Exceptionalism, from the early national ...

How Many Exceptionalisms?: Explorations in Comparative Macroanalysis (Politics History & Social Chan)
Aristide Zolberg

Temple University Press, 2008

American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword

Seymour Martin Lipset

W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

Chapter 6 by itself is worth the price.
As someone lucky enough to be employed at an American university, I really appreciated Chapter 6: "American Intellectuals-Mostly on the Left, Some Politically Incorrect." On page 188 we read [as a quote] "American academic Marxism is politically irrelevant and marginal ...

Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire, Revised Edition (Cornell Paperbacks)
Thomas R. Hietala

Cornell University Press, 2003

Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism.

Andrei S. Markovits, Steven L. Hellerman

Princeton University Press, 2001

Its less boring to read about it than to watch it
This is a sociological study aimed to explain why ' soccer'( To the rest of the world 'football') has not become one of the major American sports. The authors speak about American exceptionalism what differentiates its culture from Europe. Among the elements are ...

Power and Superpower: Global Leadership and Exceptionalism in the 21st Century

Century Foundation Press, 2007

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism

Andrew Bacevich

Metropolitan Books, 2008

IRAQ WAR VETS AGREE
Even before I read Col. Bacevich's OUTSTANDING book, I wrote several letters to the editor at my local level warning the same thing; most were not printed as they were seen as being too long or stinging. Every vet who knows anything about anything that I served with in ...

The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity From 1492 to 1800

Jack P. Greene

The University of North Carolina Press, 1997

On American "exceptionalism"
In writing The Intellectual Construction of America, Jack Greene pursued two different but compatible goals. His first aim was to trace the changing view intellectuals held of America from the first discovery of the new world through the establishment of the republic. ...

The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal
David M. Wrobel

University Press of Kansas, 1993

The American frontier was officially closed, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 1890. Yet more homesteads were settled in the first few decades of the twentieth century than in the entire nineteenth century. "Frontier anxiety," then, really was caused not by the closing of the frontier, but by the perception that the frontier was closing, ...

It's the Culture, Stupid.(soccer in the United states)(Statistical Data Included): An article from: Soccer ...
Brent Dicrescenzo, Hugo Boss

Century Publishing, 2001

This digital document is an article from Soccer Digest, published by Century Publishing on August 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1779 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it ...

Washington's exceptionalism and the United Nations.(Global Insights): An article from: Global Governance
Paul Heinbecker

Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004

This digital document is an article from Global Governance, published by Lynne Rienner Publishers on July 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2768 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can ...