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Author : Robert Francis McDonnell,William E. Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:1842956
Author : Jorge G. Castañeda
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190224509
Do Americans care what foreigners think about the United States? This book makes the case that they should. In these pages, Jorge Castañeda writes from his unique vantage point as a former Foreign Minister of Mexico who has lived, studied, and worked in America. He offers an impressionistic, analytical, and intuitive review of his experience in the country over the last half-century, and shows how foreigners can provide perspective on the United States' true nature. Castañeda brings a different viewpoint to issues ranging from purported American exceptionalism, uniformity, race and religion, culture, immigration, and the death penalty. Visitors and analysts, from Dickens to Naipaul, have generally asked the right questions and described America's most salient features and mysteries. But, they have not always followed through with answers and explanations. Castañeda draws from his work with American civil society and government authorities to provide both insight and context. Americans have long seen their country as "exceptional," standing outside of history, but by comparing its contemporary politics and culture with those of other countries, Castañeda shows how increasing nationalism and nostalgia are actually making the US more like other countries. Castañeda admits that most Americans have never cared much about what a foreigner thinks about their country, but the dynamic is shifting. The outside world means more to the US than ever before, and Americans should care about what foreigners think since they are now so sensitive to what foreigners do. Since Trump's election in 2016, American politics increasingly resemble those of Europe, Latin America, and parts of Asia, such that pining for a lost and glorious past is as American as it is British, Mexican, Chinese, or Italian. Now, the questions that serious, knowledgeable, and sympathetic foreigners address to Americans may be the ones Americans ask--or should ask--for themselves.
Author : Jorge G. Castañeda
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190224493
"Foreigners have been writing about the United States ever since its foundation. Now it is my turn. But please don't hold this against me: the United States itself is at fault. Like a great many people on earth, I've long been fascinated by this remarkable phenomenon which calls itself America. My fate -or perhaps good fortune- has been that of a foreigner who for half a century lived the American experience-as a child, as a student, as an author, as a recurrent visitor and as a university professor. Being Mexican places me in a special category: having lost half its territory to the United States in the 19th century, having found itself caught up in the maelstrom of America's current identity crisis, Mexico can never ignore what happens north of the border. Further, while serving as Mexico's Foreign Minister from 2000 to 2003, I had the privilege of peeping inside the machinery of power that makes this great nation tick. That said, this book is not written from a Mexican perspective but rather from that of a sympathetic foreign critic who has seen the United States from both inside and outside. And its hope is to contribute something to how Americans view themselves and are viewed by the world. Before embarking on this journey, I naturally looked back at some of my forebears, earlier foreigners who were drawn to visit or live in the United States and who then went on to offer their version of America to their home readers. Some like the French traveler Alexis de Tocqueville, author of the early 19th century classic, Democracy in America, felt European nations had much to learn from the American democratic experiment. Others like Charles Dickens left dismayed by what he considered to be the country's singular obsession with money. But they are just two of dozens who have tried-and continue to try- to find a magic key that unlocks the complexities and contradictions of American society. Indeed, it is as if the United States seeks to challenge foreign writers to explain it, confident they will fail. And in taking it on, these outsiders have variously experienced frustration, hope, anger, excitement, disappointment and enlightenment- but never indifference"--
Author : Jorge G. Castañeda
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190224493
"Foreigners have been writing about the United States ever since its foundation. Now it is my turn. But please don't hold this against me: the United States itself is at fault. Like a great many people on earth, I've long been fascinated by this remarkable phenomenon which calls itself America. My fate -or perhaps good fortune- has been that of a foreigner who for half a century lived the American experience-as a child, as a student, as an author, as a recurrent visitor and as a university professor. Being Mexican places me in a special category: having lost half its territory to the United States in the 19th century, having found itself caught up in the maelstrom of America's current identity crisis, Mexico can never ignore what happens north of the border. Further, while serving as Mexico's Foreign Minister from 2000 to 2003, I had the privilege of peeping inside the machinery of power that makes this great nation tick. That said, this book is not written from a Mexican perspective but rather from that of a sympathetic foreign critic who has seen the United States from both inside and outside. And its hope is to contribute something to how Americans view themselves and are viewed by the world. Before embarking on this journey, I naturally looked back at some of my forebears, earlier foreigners who were drawn to visit or live in the United States and who then went on to offer their version of America to their home readers. Some like the French traveler Alexis de Tocqueville, author of the early 19th century classic, Democracy in America, felt European nations had much to learn from the American democratic experiment. Others like Charles Dickens left dismayed by what he considered to be the country's singular obsession with money. But they are just two of dozens who have tried-and continue to try- to find a magic key that unlocks the complexities and contradictions of American society. Indeed, it is as if the United States seeks to challenge foreign writers to explain it, confident they will fail. And in taking it on, these outsiders have variously experienced frustration, hope, anger, excitement, disappointment and enlightenment- but never indifference"--
Author : Henry Steele Commager
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : National characteristics, American
ISBN : WISC:89083850974
Author : Robert Francis McDonnell,William E. Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : United States
ISBN : PURD:32754073783734
Author : American Academy of Political and Social Science
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : National characteristics, American
ISBN : UCSC:32106000786183
Author : Henry Steele Commager
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : National characteristics, American
ISBN : OCLC:17414713
Author : Henry Steele Commager
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:916549775
Author : Aurelian Cr_iu_u,Jeffrey C. Isaac
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271033907
"A collection of essays that discuss representative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French and English views of American democracy and society, and offer a critical assessment of various narrative constructions of American life, society, and culture"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Jan Bardsley,Laura Miller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520267831
"Manners and Mischief is a cohesive, stimulating volume. Reading these essays and the editors' enlightening introduction was a joy: I learned a great deal, smiled and laughed with uncommon regularity, and marveled at the quality of this remarkable collection." -William M. Tsutsui, author of Godzilla on My Mind "This book is full of fascinating insights. Well-written and often witty, it captures a detailed snapshot of Japanese society in the early 21st century. I would say this is the most insightful book on modern Japan I have read in years." -Liza Dalby, anthropologist and novelist
Author : Stephen Brooks
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press Canada
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054407823
The chapters in this volume address the issue of why and how foreign observers view American politics the way they do. By including selections from five of the most widely cited foreign observers of American politics and history, this volume not only provides and engaging historical overview of American democracy, but also directs attention to how and why these interpretations inform debate today. Included in the volume are excerpts from classic texts by Alexis de Tocqueville, James Bryce, Gunnar Myrdal, Harold Laski, and Simone de Beauvoir.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006280924
Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (July - December)
Author : Henry Steele Commager
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1072514339
Author : William Woodruff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1975-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349020652