Regionalism And Nationalism In The United States

Author : Donald Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351494045

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Regionalism and Nationalism in the United States by Donald Davidson Pdf

A quarter of a century before Lyndon B. Johnson popularized the slogan ""The Great Society,"" Donald Davidson wrote his critique of Leviathan, the omnipotent nation-state, in terms that only recently have come to be appreciated. ""Leviathan is the idea of the Great Society, organized under a single, complex, but strong and highly centralized national government, motivated ultimately by men's desire for economic welfare of a specific kind rather than their desire for personal liberty. "" Originally published as The Attack on Leviathan, this eloquent volume is an attack on state centralism and an affirmation of regional identity.Davidson's work is a special sort of intellectual as well as social history. It reveals an extraordinary mastery of the literature on regionalism in the United States, with special emphasis on the work on Rupert Vance and Howard Odum in the social sciences. Davidson looks at regionalism in arts, literature, and education. He favors agriculture over industrialization, and ""the hinterland"" over cities, examining along the way varying historical memories, the dilemma of Southern liberals, and the choice of expedience or principles. His book is a forceful and commanding challenge to those who would push for central authority at the sacrifice of individual and regional identity. Davidson concludes with a devastating critique of nationalism leading to a supra-nationalism. Ultimately, the heterogeneity of human desires comes up against the uniformity of world systems and world states. Davidson offers instead a broad world of intellectual history and commentary in which individualism allies itself with communities as a means for stemming the tide of collectivism and its base in a world state. For Davidson, Leviathan, the monstrous state, is a devourer, not a savior. As several peoples rise to strike down their own Leviathans, this courageous book may be better understood now than it was in 1938.Donald Davidson

Author : Donald Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Nationalism
ISBN : LCCN:wln75006943

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The Attack on Leviathan by Donald Davidson Pdf

Author : Institute for Research on Public Policy,Policy Studies Institute
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0920380743

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Regionalism and Supranationalism by Institute for Research on Public Policy,Policy Studies Institute Pdf

Author : Donald Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003844862

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The Attack on Leviathan by Donald Davidson Pdf

Author : Amitav Acharya
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801466342

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The Making of Southeast Asia by Amitav Acharya Pdf

Developing a framework to study "what makes a region," Amitav Acharya investigates the origins and evolution of Southeast Asian regionalism and international relations. He views the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) "from the bottom up" as not only a U.S.-inspired ally in the Cold War struggle against communism but also an organization that reflects indigenous traditions. Although Acharya deploys the notion of "imagined community" to examine the changes, especially since the Cold War, in the significance of ASEAN dealings for a regional identity, he insists that "imagination" is itself not a neutral but rather a culturally variable concept. The regional imagination in Southeast Asia imagines a community of nations different from NAFTA or NATO, the OAU, or the European Union. In this new edition of a book first published as The Quest for Identity in 2000, Acharya updates developments in the region through the first decade of the new century: the aftermath of the financial crisis of 1997, security affairs after September 2001, the long-term impact of the 2004 tsunami, and the substantial changes wrought by the rise of China as a regional and global actor. Acharya argues in this important book for the crucial importance of regionalism in a different part of the world.

Author : Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013480384

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Nationalism and Regionalism by Central Intelligence Agency Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Leigh Anne Duck
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820334189

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The Nation's Region by Leigh Anne Duck Pdf

How could liberalism and apartheid coexist for decades in our country, as they did during the first half of the twentieth century? This study looks at works by such writers as Thomas Dixon, Erskine Caldwell, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison to show how representations of time in southern narrative first accommodated but finally elucidated the relationship between these two political philosophies. Although racial segregation was codified by U.S. law, says Leigh Anne Duck, nationalist discourse downplayed its significance everywhere but in the South, where apartheid was conceded as an immutable aspect of an anachronistic culture. As the nation modernized, the South served as a repository of the country's romantic notions: the region was represented as a close-knit, custom-bound place through which the nation could temper its ambivalence about the upheavals of progress. The Great Depression changed this. Amid economic anxiety and the international rise of fascism, writes Duck, "the trope of the backward South began to comprise an image of what the United States could become." As she moves from the Depression to the nascent years of the civil rights movement to the early cold war era, Duck explains how experimental writers in each of these periods challenged ideas of a monolithically archaic South through innovative representations of time. She situates their narratives amid broad concern regarding national modernization and governance, as manifest in cultural and political debates, sociological studies, and popular film. Although southern modernists' modes and methods varied along this trajectory, their purpose remained focused: to explore the mutually constitutive relationships between social forms considered "southern" and "national."

Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : NeWest
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000350877

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Radical Regionalism by George Melnyk Pdf

Poses the the belief that regionalism ... is the way for Western Canada and its peoples to realize the potentialities that history has offered them"--back cover

Author : Charlie Jeffery,Daniel Wincott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137314994

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Citizenship after the Nation State by Charlie Jeffery,Daniel Wincott Pdf

Offering an confrontation of the uncritical choice of the 'nation-state' as a unit of analysis in postwar social science, this book utilises specially collected data from 14 regions across five European states to explores how citizens define and pursue collective goals at regional scale as well as at the scale of the 'nation-state'.

Author : Rune Dahl Fitjar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135203306

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The Rise of Regionalism by Rune Dahl Fitjar Pdf

This book examines why regional identities are stronger in some regions than in others, and discusses the underlying causes of the mobilization of sub-state regions in Western Europe over the past fifty years.

Author : Gi-Wook Shin,Daniel C. Sneider
Publisher : Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822035206135

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Cross Currents by Gi-Wook Shin,Daniel C. Sneider Pdf

Northeast Asia stands at a turning point in its history. The key economies of China, Japan, and South Korea are growing increasingly interdependent, and the movement toward regionalism is gaining momentum. Yet interdependency, often set in a global context, also spurs nationalism in all three countries, and elsewhere in East Asia. Northeast Asia today feels the presence of all three complex forces--national, regional, and global--connecting, competing, and colliding in myriad ways. The authors of this book assess current interactions of national and regional forces in Northeast Asia, in the context of U.S. presence in the region. These seemingly contradictory forces must be considered together; the sparks they generate have important policy implications for the United States and for the region as a whole. Constructive reformulation of these interactions is one of Northeast Asia's most pressing contemporary challenges.

Author : J. Augusteijn,H. Storm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137271303

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Region and State in Nineteenth-Century Europe by J. Augusteijn,H. Storm Pdf

In reaction to the centralizing nation-building efforts of states in nineteenth-century Europe, many regions began to define their own identity. In thirteen stimulating essays, specialists analyze why regional identities became widely celebrated towards the end of that century and why some considered themselves part of the new national self-image.

Author : Richard Gwyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0771037201

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Nationalism Without Walls by Richard Gwyn Pdf

All nation states are being changed by global economy, computer technology and cultural revolutions. This book is an examination of Canadian nationhood.

Author : Nicholas Tarling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134181056

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Regionalism in Southeast Asia by Nicholas Tarling Pdf

Regionalism in Southeast Asia provides the reader with an historical analysis of Southeast Asia from the distinct perspective of regionalism. Southeast Asian history is usually written from a national point of view, which underplays the links between neighbouring states and nations and the effects of these bonds on the development of regionalism. This innovative book begins by defining the meaning of 'region' and 'regionalism' and then applies it to periods in history in Southeast Asia, looking at how patterns of regionalism have shifted through time to the present day. By focusing on the regional perspective Nicholas Tarling gives an original treatment of Southeast Asian history, its political dynamics and its international realtions. Regionalism in Southeast Asia completes a trilogy of books on Southeast Asia by Nicholas Tarling published by Routledge, the other two are Nationalism in Southeast Asia and Imperialism in Southeast Asia.

Author : Frans Schrijver
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789056294281

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Regionalism After Regionalisation by Frans Schrijver Pdf

Concentrating on three countries, Spain, France and the United Kingdom, and three regional case studies of Galicia, Brittany and Wales, this book offers an analysis of the development of political regionalism after regionalisation.