American exceptionalism

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"In engaging and lucid prose, Volker Depkat offers general readers and students of American history an invaluable lens through which they can evaluate for themselves the merits of the many ways in which Americans have understood their country as exceptional"--

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Full title :American exceptionalism / Volker Depkat.

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Publication Date:2021

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Publisher(s):Rowman & Littlefield
Place of Publication:Lanham, Maryland
Language:eng
Publication Date:2021

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:153810119X, 9781538101193
oclc:on1269421641
LC Classification:E169.1
Dewey Decimal:973

The American land : landscapes of abundance, wilderness, and beauty -- The West and the South : exceptional regions and regions of exceptionalism -- Cities upon Hills : the colonial foundations of American exceptionalism -- Sacred fire of liberty : the American revolution and the transformation of American exceptionalism -- The American way of empire : exceptionalism and U.S. Foreign policy -- Promissory notes : exceptionalism and African American self-empowerment -- Perfectible union : American exceptionalism and reform -- People of plenty : American exceptionalism and affluence -- Crisis of disorientation : contested exceptionalisms in contemporary America.

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