Americanism : new perspectives on the history of an ideal / edited by Michael Kazin & Joseph A. McCartin.

Other author Kazin, Michael, 1948-
Other author McCartin, Joseph Anthony.
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Descriptionvi, 279 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
National characteristics, American.
United States--Politics and government.
United States--Foreign relations.

Contents See your Declaration Americans!!! : abolitionism, Americanism, and the revolutionary tradition in free black politics / Mia Bay -- Anticipating Americanism : an individual perspective on republicanism in the Early Republic / Robert Shalhope -- True Americanism : Progressive Era intellectuals and the problem of liberal nationalism / Jonathan Hansen -- The American century of Henry R. Luce / Stephen J. Whitfield -- The unlovely residue of outworn prejudices : the Hart-Celler Act and the politics of immigration reform, 1945-1965 / Mae M. Ngai -- In the shadow of Vietnam : liberal nationalism and the problem of war / Gary Gerstle -- Religious diversity : the American experiment that works / Alan Wolfe -- Americanism against American empire / Alan McPherson -- Japanese intellectuals define America, from the 1920s through World War II / Jun Furuya -- The promise of freedom, the friend of authority : American culture in postwar France / Louis Menand -- French views of American modernity : from text to subtext / Rob Kroes -- Suffering sisters? American feminists and the problem of female genital surgeries / Melani McAlister.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005031396
ISBN0807830100 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780807830109