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Title

The American nation, national identity, nationalism / edited by Knud Krakau.

Publication

Münster : Lit ; New Brunswick, N.J. : Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers, [1997]

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Details

Additional Authors

Krakau, Knud.

Description

347 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Ever since Crevecoeur formulated his famous question, Americans have asked themselves: "What, then, is the American, this new man?", and even more urgently so once it became predictable that the traditionally majoritarian position of Anglo-Americans will dissolve in a sea of multi-ethnicity. What constitutes an American nation and produces collective identity among an extremely heterogeneous population? This comparative issue is addressed by sociologist Liah Greenfeld in her introductory essay. Other essays contributed by historians and political scientists from the U.S., England, and Germany discuss historical developments and phenomena which have led to regional or group-specific identities which, in complex ways, contribute to, and interact with American national identity and nationalism."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Studies in North American history, politics and society ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Studien zu Geschichte, Politik und Gesellschaft Nordamerikas ; Bd. 1.

Subject

• Nationalism > United States
• Americanization
• Ethnicity > Political aspects > United States
• National characteristics, American
• United States > Civilization > 20th century

Genre/Form

Kongress 1997.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Nation, national identity, nationalism: an introduction / Knud Krakau -- The origins and nature of American nationalism in comparative perspective / Liah Greenfield -- The 'principal end of the plantation': the praying Indian and the politics of a New England colonial identity, 1630-1700 / Ralph Bauer -- Puritan piety, "liberties and franchises of Englishmen", and "peaceable kingdoms": English early modern foundations of the American body politic / Robert von Friedeburg -- A government of laws or a government of the people?: direct democracy and American political culture, 1890-1920 / Thomas Goebel -- Falling back into history: conflicting visions of national decline and destruction in the imperialism debate around the turn of the century / Fabian Hilfrich -- Making Americans: conceptions of the ideal American in campaigns to Americanize new immigrants in early 20th century / Dietrich Herrmann -- "...very much an American life": the concept of "citizenship" in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942 / Olaf Stieglitz -- The American debate about immigration in the 1990s: a new nationalism after the end of the Cold War? / Herbert Dittgen -- Black power: the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the resurgence of Black nationalism during the 1960s / Manfred Berg -- Black separatism as an alternative to the goal of racial integration: a comparison of the Nation of Islam and the Black Power movement of the 1960s / Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson -- Democratization and hegemonic control: American propaganda and the West German public's foreign policy orientation, 1949-1955 / Frank Schumacher -- Enemies abroad: the Vietnam war and the China equation / Robert Garson -- The American national identity and U.S. foreign policy / Tony Smith.

ISBN

3825828573

LCCN

^^^98214611^

OCLC

• 40054562
• SCSB-11512931

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library