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American exceptionalism / Deborah L. Madsen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: BAAS paperbacksPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 186 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585123454
  • 9780585123455
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: American exceptionalism.DDC classification:
  • 973 21
LOC classification:
  • E169.1 .M197 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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 espiritual de Aztlan.
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Summary: This historical account outlines how Americans' spiritual and moral commitment to the notion of exceptionalism has affected the evolution of the United States as an ideological and geographical entity from 1620 to the present day.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-180) and index.

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This historical account outlines how Americans' spiritual and moral commitment to the notion of exceptionalism has affected the evolution of the United States as an ideological and geographical entity from 1620 to the present day.

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 espiritual de Aztlan.

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