The American Exception Volume 2

Author : Frank J. Lechner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137587206

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The American Exception, Volume 2 by Frank J. Lechner Pdf

This book examines what makes the United States an exceptional society, what impact it has had abroad, and why these issues have mattered to Americans. With historical and comparative evidence, Frank J. Lechner describes the distinctive path of American institutions and tracks changes in the country’s national identity in order to assess claims about America’s ‘exceptional’ qualities. The book analyzes several focal points of exceptionalist thinking about America, including the importance of US Constitution and the American sense of mission, and explores several aspects of America’s distinctive global impact; for example, in economics and film. In addition to discussing the distinctive global impact of the US, this first volume delves into the economy, government, media, and the military and foreign policy.

Author : Frank J. Lechner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137587176

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The American Exception, Volume 1 by Frank J. Lechner Pdf

This book examines what makes the United States an exceptional society, what impact it has had abroad, and why these issues have mattered to Americans. With historical and comparative evidence, Frank J. Lechner describes the distinctive path of American institutions and tracks changes in the country’s national identity in order to assess claims about America’s ‘exceptional’ qualities. The book analyzes several focal points of exceptionalist thinking about America, including the importance of US Constitution and the American sense of mission, and explores several aspects of America’s distinctive global impact; for example, in economics and film. In addition to discussing the distinctive global impact of the US, this first volume delves into religion, law, and sports.

Author : Aaron Good
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781510769144

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American Exception by Aaron Good Pdf

American Exception seeks to explain the breakdown of US democracy. In particular, how we can understand the uncanny continuity of American foreign policy, the breakdown of the rule of law, and the extreme concentration of wealth and power into an overworld of the corporate rich. To trace the evolution of the American state, the author takes a deep politics approach, shedding light on those political practices that are typically repressed in “mainstream” discourse. In its long history before World War II, the US had a deep political system—a system of governance in which decision-making and enforcement were carried out within—and outside of—public institutions. It was a system that always included some degree of secretive collusion and law-breaking. After World War II, US elites decided to pursue global dominance over the international capitalist system. Setting aside the liberal rhetoric, this project was pursued in a manner that was by and large imperialistic rather than progressive. To administer this covert empire, US elites created a massive national security state characterized by unprecedented levels of secrecy and lawlessness. The “Global Communist Conspiracy” provided a pretext for exceptionism—an endless “exception” to the rule of law. What gradually emerged after World War II was a tripartite state system of governance. The open democratic state and the authoritarian security state were both increasingly dominated by an American deep state. The term deep state was badly misappropriated during the Trump era. In the simplest sense, it herein refers to all those institutions that collectively exercise undemocratic power over state and society. To trace how we arrived at this point, American Exception explores various deep state institutions and history-making interventions. Key institutions involve the relationships between the overworld of the corporate rich, the underworld of organized crime, and the national security actors that mediate between them. History-making interventions include the toppling of foreign governments, the launching of aggressive wars, and the political assassinations of the 1960s. The book concludes by assessing the prospects for a revival of US democracy.

Author : Jefferson Cowie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691175737

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The Great Exception by Jefferson Cowie Pdf

How the New Deal was a unique historical moment and what this reveals about U.S. politics, economics, and culture Where does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these important questions. In the period between the Great Depression and the 1970s, he argues, the United States government achieved a unique level of equality, using its considerable resources on behalf of working Americans in ways that it had not before and has not since. If there is to be a comparable battle for collective economic rights today, Cowie argues, it needs to build on an understanding of the unique political foundation for the New Deal. Anyone who wants to come to terms with the politics of inequality in the United States will need to read The Great Exception.

Author : Gene Andrew Jarrett
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1125 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118559505

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The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2 by Gene Andrew Jarrett Pdf

The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first such anthology to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium. Reflects the current scholarly and pedagogic structure of African American literary studies Selects literary texts according to extensive research on classroom adoptions, scholarship, and the expert opinions of leading professors Organizes literary texts according to more appropriate periods of literary history, dividing them into seven sections that accurately depict intellectual, cultural, and political movements Includes more reprints of entire works and longer selections of major works than any other anthology of its kind This second volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the 1920s to the present The two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be bought as a set, at over 20% savings.

Author : Gary Gerstle,Joel Isaac
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226712321

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States of Exception in American History by Gary Gerstle,Joel Isaac Pdf

States of Exception in American History brings to light the remarkable number of instances since the Founding in which the protections of the Constitution have been overridden, held in abeyance, or deliberately weakened for certain members of the polity. In the United States, derogations from the rule of law seem to have been a feature of—not a bug in—the constitutional system. The first comprehensive account of the politics of exceptions and emergencies in the history of the United States, this book weaves together historical studies of moments and spaces of exception with conceptual analyses of emergency, the state of exception, sovereignty, and dictatorship. The Civil War, the Great Depression, and the Cold War figure prominently in the essays; so do Francis Lieber, Frederick Douglass, John Dewey, Clinton Rossiter, and others who explored whether it was possible for the United States to survive states of emergency without losing its democratic way. States of Exception combines political theory and the history of political thought with histories of race and political institutions. It is both inspired by and illuminating of the American experience with constitutional rule in the age of terror and Trump.

Author : Michael Mann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 845 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107031180

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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 2, The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914 by Michael Mann Pdf

This second volume deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War.

Author : John Houston Merrill,Charles Frederic Williams,Thomas Johnson Michie,David Shephard Garland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044093015790

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The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill,Charles Frederic Williams,Thomas Johnson Michie,David Shephard Garland Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1210 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Law
ISBN : NYPL:33433008085957

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The American and English Encyclopædia of Law: Jointure to Lease by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patrick Michel,Enzo Pace
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004216419

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Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion by Patrick Michel,Enzo Pace Pdf

The main goal of the second issue of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, devoted entirely to religion and politics, is precisely to question the sense of a reconstruction of the mutual and simultaneous relations between these two spheres of social life. What does this process mean and where is it taking us?

Author : Timothy Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351576888

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American Exceptionalism by Timothy Roberts Pdf

American exceptionalism the idea that America is fundamentally distinct from other nations is a philosophy that has dominated economics, politics, religion and culture for two centuries. This collection of primary source material seeks to understand how this belief began, how it developed and why it remains popular.

Author : Charles Capper,Cristina Giorcelli
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299223434

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Margaret Fuller by Charles Capper,Cristina Giorcelli Pdf

Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), a pioneering gender theorist, transcendentalist, journalist, and literary critic, was one of the most well-known and highly regarded feminist intellectuals of nineteenth-century America. With her contemporaries Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, she was one of the predominant writers of the Transcendentalist movement, and she aligned herself in both her public and private life with the European revolutionary fervor of the 1840s. She traveled to Italy as a foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune to cover the nascent revolutions, pursuing the transnational ideal awakened in her youth by a classical education in European languages and a Romantic curiosity about other cultures, traditions, and identities. This volume is a collaboration of international scholars who, from varied fields and approaches, assess Fuller’s genius and character. Treating the last several years of Margaret Fuller’s short life, these essays offer a truly international discussion of Fuller’s unique cultural, political, and personal achievements. From the origins and articulations of Fuller’s cosmopolitanism to her examination of “the woman question,” and from her fascination with the European “other” to her candid perception of imperial America from abroad, they ponder what such an extraordinary woman meant to America, and also to Italy and Europe, during her lifetime and continuing to the present.

Author : Emmanuel Godin,Tony Chafer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1571816844

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The French Exception by Emmanuel Godin,Tony Chafer Pdf

The notion of French exceptionalism is deeply embedded in the nation's self-image and in a range of political and academic discourses. Recently, the debate about whether France really is "exceptional" has acquired a critical edge. Against the background of introspection about the nature of "national identity," some proclaim "normalisation" and the end of French exceptionalism, while others point out to the continuing evidence that France remains distinctive at a number of levels, from popular culture to public policy. This book explores the notion of French exceptionalism, places it in its European context, examines its history and evaluate its continuing relevance in a range of fields from politics and public policy to popular culture and sport.

Author : Kate Zernike
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781398520028

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The Exceptions by Kate Zernike Pdf

‘Outstanding’ Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry The remarkable untold story of how a group of sixteen determined women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radical change. This is a triumphant account of progress, whilst reminding us that further action is needed. These women scientists entered the work force in the 1960s during a push for affirmative action. Embarking on their careers they thought that discrimination against women was a thing of the past and that science was a pure meritocracy. Women were marginalized and minimized, especially as they grew older, their contributions stolen and erased. Written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who broke the story in 1999 for The Boston Globe, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology made the astonishing admission that it discriminated against women on its faculty, The Exceptions is an intimate narrative which centres on Nancy Hopkins – a surprisingly reluctant feminist who became a hero to two generations of women in science. In uncovering an erased history, we are finally introduced to the hidden scientists who paved the way for collective change.

Author : Vince Flynn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439100523

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Kill Shot by Vince Flynn Pdf

#1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin—now a major motion picture—and “the voice of today’s postmodern thriller generation” (The Providence Journal) delivers a pulse-pounding novel starring a young, hungry, and lethal operative named Mitch Rapp as he begins his career as a CIA superagent. In the year since the CIA fully trained and then unleashed him, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of men, bullet by bullet. His latest target takes him to Paris but in the split second it takes the bullet to leave Rapp’s silenced pistol, everything changes. The tables have turned, and Rapp finds himself brutally outnumbered. In the same instant, he has become a liability. Operating on his own and outside the control of his handlers, it soon becomes clear that nothing is more dangerous than a wounded and cornered man. Because if anyone can survive and come out on top, no matter whom he must kill to get there, it’s Mitch Rapp. The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been as Mitch Rapp embarks on the journey that will turn him into America’s most deadly asset. The non-stop and realistic action proves that “Flynn is a master—maybe the master—of writing thriller novels in which the pages seem to turn themselves” (Bookreporter).