Author : Srdjan Vucetic
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804772258
Focuses on Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States.
Author : Gretchen Murphy
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814796192
During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem “The White Man’s Burden.” While some of his American readers argued that the poem served as justification for imperialist practices, others saw Kipling’s satirical talents at work and read it as condemnation. Gretchen Murphy explores this tension embedded in the notion of the white man’s burden to create a new historical frame for understanding race and literature in America. Shadowing the White Man’s Burden maintains that literature symptomized and channeled anxiety about the racial components of the U.S. world mission, while also providing a potentially powerful medium for multiethnic authors interested in redrawing global color lines. Through a range of archival materials from literary reviews to diplomatic records to ethnological treatises, Murphy identifies a common theme in the writings of African-, Asian- and Native-American authors who exploited anxiety about race and national identity through narratives about a multiracial U.S. empire. Shadowing the White Man’s Burden situates American literature in the context of broader race relations, and provides a compelling analysis of the way in which literature came to define and shape racial attitudes for the next century.
Author : Edward Parliament Kohn
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773527966
Kohn shows how Americans and Canadians often referred to each other as members of the same "family," sharing the same "blood," and drew upon the common lexicon of Anglo-Saxon rhetoric to undermine old rivalries and underscore shared interests. Though the predominance of Anglo-Saxonism proved short-lived, it left a legacy of Canadian-American goodwill as both nations accepted their shared destiny on the continent. Kohn argues that this new Canadian-American understanding fostered the Anglo-American "special relationship" that shaped the twentieth century.
Author : C. Vann Woodward
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 1981-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0807158208
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Author : Francesco Cordasco
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810814059
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Author : Alexander DeConde
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9781555531331
This book sheds a disconcerting light on a familiar history, contending that ethnoracial considerations and especially British-American ethnocentrism have often taken priority over morality, ideology, and other factors in determining U.S. foreign policy.
Author : Michael D. Hattem
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0300270879
The surprising history of how Americans have fought over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution for nearly two and a half centuries Americans agree that their nation's origins lie in the Revolution, but they have never agreed on what the Revolution meant. For nearly two hundred and fifty years, politicians, political parties, social movements, and a diverse array of ordinary Americans have constantly reimagined the Revolution to fit the times and suit their own agendas. In this sweeping take on American history, Michael D. Hattem reveals how conflicts over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution--including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution--have influenced the most important events and tumultuous periods in the nation's history; how African Americans, women, and other oppressed groups have shaped the popular memory of the Revolution; and how much of our contemporary memory of the Revolution is a product of the Cold War. By exploring the Revolution's unique role in American history as a national origin myth, Hattem shows how the meaning of the Revolution has never been fixed, how remembering the nation's founding has often done far more to divide Americans than to unite them, and how revising the past is an important and long‑standing American political tradition.
Author : Meyer Weinberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 1990-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0313064601
This volume represents the most comprehensive book-length bibliography on the subject of racism available in the United States. Compiler Meyer Weinberg has surveyed a wide-ranging group of material and classified it under 87 subject headings, drawing on articles, books, congressional hearings and reports, theses and dissertations, research reports, and investigative journalism. Historical references cover the long history of racism, while the heightened awareness and activity of the recent past is also addressed in detail. In addition to works that fit the narrow definition of racism as a mode of oppression or group denial of rights based on color, Weinberg includes references dealing with sexism, antisemitism, economic exploitation, and similar forms of dehumanization. References are grouped under a series of subject headings that include Civil Rights, Desegregation, Housing, Socialism and Racism, Unemployment, and Violence against Minorities. Items which do not have self-explanatory titles are annotated, and virtually every section is thoroughly cross-referenced. Also included is one section of carefully selected references on racism in countries other than the United States. Unlike the remainder of the book, this section is not comprehensive, but rather provides an opportunity to view racism comparatively. The volume concludes with an author index. This work will be a significant addition to both academic and public libraries, as well as an important resource for courses in racism, sociology, and black history.
Author : Comer Vann Woodward
Publisher :
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Southern States
ISBN :
Author : Frank Joseph Shulman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 923 pages
File Size : 50,66 MB
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1135158169
First Published in 1971. This annotated bibliography of doctoral dissertations on Japan and Korea grew out of a decision to expand and bring up to date an earlier list entitled Unpublished Doctoral Dissertations Relating to Japan, Accepted in the Universities of Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States, 1946-1963, compiled by Peter Cornwall and issued by the Center for Japanese Studies in 1965.
