What is the state of American studies in the twenty-first century?
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"This book uses literature to explain why pre-Confederation Canadians did not want to become Americans. The author argues that the perceived cultural distinctions between 19th-century American and colonial Canadian societies echoed public attitudes towards the political systems …
Embers of empire in Brexit Britain
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Embers of empire in Brexit Britain
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While the British Empire is long gone, it survives as a recurring flashpoint in heated debates about the present and future of Britain and the nations over which Britain once rules. [This book] turns a critical eye to the widely-held notion that the long shadow of the imperial p…
"The election of President Obama in 2008 and the apparent decline of American power in the world has rekindled an old and important debate. Is the United States exceptional in its values and institutions, as well as in the role that it is destined to play in world affairs? In th…
"The election of President Obama in 2008 and the apparent decline of American power in the world has rekindled an old and important debate. Is the United States exceptional in its values and institutions, as well as in the role that it is destined to play in world affairs? In th…
"In 1987, Allan Bloom?s The Closing of the American Mind was published; a wildly popular book that drew attention to the shift in American culture away from the tenets that made America?and Americans?unique. Bloom focused on a breakdown in the American curriculum, but many sense…
"The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States has opened a new chapter in the country's long and often tortured history of inter-racial and inter-ethnic relations. Many relished in the inauguration of the country's first African American president -- a…
This is the most comprehensive and lively history of Ireland's writers ever to be published. It is a controversial survey of the whole course of Irish literature in English since the 1890s.