"In this sweeping history of political ideas, Andrew F. Lang reappraises the Civil War era as a crisis of American exceptionalism. Through this lens, Lang shows how the intellectual, political, and social ramifications of the war and its meaning rippled through the decades that …
"This book offers a different account of the relationship between the American identity of exceptionalism and U.S. foreign policy".
"One of the preeminent intellectual historians of our time, Ninkovich delivers here his most ambitious and sweeping book to date. He argues that historically the United States has been driven not by a belief in its destiny or its special character but rather by a need to survive…
"One of the preeminent intellectual historians of our time, Ninkovich delivers here his most ambitious and sweeping book to date. He argues that historically the United States has been driven not by a belief in its destiny or its special character but rather by a need to survive…
"This book offers a different account of the relationship between the American identity of exceptionalism and U.S. foreign policy".
"This book offers a different account of the relationship between the American identity of exceptionalism and U.S. foreign policy"--
"This book offers a different account of the relationship between the American identity of exceptionalism and U.S. foreign policy"--
The authoris a sociologist who has written extensively on human rights and recently on climate change. In her new book she develops the idea that protecting everyone's human rights and slowing planetary warming are the same goals. It is now clear that the leader of the richest, …
Like many institutions of high education throughout the United States, the University of North Texas requires all students to pass introductory United States History courses. While the purpose of these courses should be to create a population well versed in U.S. history and soci…
This dissertation scrutinizes how American Exceptionalism evolved from a collection of Christian and English legends around 1776 into today’s well-organized narrative central to Americans’ self-perception and political discourse. It is based upon an extensive qualitative study o…
The meaning of the American Civil War has been debated since its very beginning. The music of the war played a key role in the subsequent memorialization of the conflict, with two songs in particular serving as potent postwar symbols of the war’s purpose and legacy. Though set t…