The American Nation

Author : Colin Woodard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101544457

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American Nations by Colin Woodard Pdf

An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth. North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent immigrants didn't confront or assimilate into an “American” or “Canadian” culture, but rather into one of the eleven distinct regional ones that spread over the continent each staking out mutually exclusive territory. In American Nations, Colin Woodard leads us on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, and the rivalries and alliances between its component nations, which conform to neither state nor international boundaries. He illustrates and explains why “American” values vary sharply from one region to another. Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) reveals how intranational differences have played a pivotal role at every point in the continent's history, from the American Revolution and the Civil War to the tumultuous sixties and the "blue county/red county" maps of recent presidential elections. American Nations is a revolutionary and revelatory take on America's myriad identities and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and are molding our future.

Author : Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : History
ISBN : OXFORD:590822969

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The American nations; or, Outlines of their general history, ancient and modern by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque Pdf

Author : Michael Lind
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1451603096

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Next American Nation by Michael Lind Pdf

Are we now, or have we ever been, a nation? As this century comes to a close, debates over immigration policy, racial preferences, and multiculturalism challenge the consensus that formerly grounded our national culture. The question of our national identity is as urgent as it has ever been in our history. Is our society disintegrating into a collection of separate ethnic enclaves, or is there a way that we can forge a coherent, unified identity as we enter the 21st century? In this "marvelously written, wide-ranging and thought-provoking"* book, Michael Lind provides a comprehensive revisionist view of the American past and offers a concrete proposal for nation-building reforms to strengthen the American future. He shows that the forces of nationalism and the ideal of a trans-racial melting pot need not be in conflict with each other, and he provides a practical agenda for a liberal nationalist revolution that would combine a new color-blind liberalism in civil rights with practical measures for reducing class-based barriers to racial integration. A stimulating critique of every kind of orthodox opinion as well as a vision of a new "Trans-American" majority, The Next American Nation may forever change the way we think and talk about American identity. *New York Newsday

Author : Bruce Frohnen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080842860

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The American Nation by Bruce Frohnen Pdf

The American Nation makes available, in one volume, many of the most crucial documents necessary for understanding the variety of policies and viewpoints driving American public life during an important, substantive part of American history. The primary sources in The American Nation are relevant to the Civil War, Reconstruction, the rise of a national capitalist system and culture, the waves of reform-minded thought and policy that moved the nation toward formation of the national administrative and welfare states, and Americaʹs emergence as a major power on the world stage. This period was a watershed in the history of the nation -- the time of establishing and consolidating national power and laying the foundations of a national government committed to promoting the material well-being of Americans. It was an era that witnessed the development of the nation-state and the establishment of the New Deal regime, which set the stage for the radical social movements of the 1960s and beyond.

Author : Adolph L. Dial,David K. Eliades
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815603606

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The Only Land I Know by Adolph L. Dial,David K. Eliades Pdf

This is the standard history of the Lumbee Indian people of southwestern North Carolina, the largest Indian community in population east of the Mississippi. Dial and Eliades trace the history of this group through 1974. Among the subjects covered are the Lumbee during the colonial period and the revolutionary War; the Lowrie war; the infamous Lowrie Band of the Civil War; the development of the Lumbee educational system; Lumbee folklore; and the modern Lumbee.

Author : Joel Garreau
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076001347439

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The Nine Nations of North America by Joel Garreau Pdf

This provocative book regroups the areas of North America into divisions according to economic and social resources and needs.

Author : James T. Campbell
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442993983

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Race, Nation, and Empire in American History by James T. Campbell Pdf

While public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and imperial greatness were a cornerstone of the new country when it was founded. In fact, notions of empire have long framed debates over western expansio...

Author : John Frederick Wilson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 082032289X

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Religion and the American Nation by John Frederick Wilson Pdf

This lively survey ranges across several centuries of change in the ways historians have thought and written about religion in America. In particular, John F. Wilson is concerned with how historians have perceived religion's relationship to the political organization of our country. He begins by establishing the genesis of religion as a specialized area of American history in the nineteenth century, and then discusses religious history's development through the early 1970s. Along the way he considers topics ranging from the "long shadow" the Puritans have cast over our comprehension of religion in American history to the ascendancy of such institutions as the University of Chicago as systematizing forces in religious scholarship. Wilson then discusses how scholars, since the early 1970s, have sought to ground their accounts of American religious trends and events in ways that either avoid or transcend references to Puritanism. The rise of comparative religious histories, Wilson notes, has been the welcome outcome. Moving into the present, Wilson explores a range of behaviors, if not beliefs, that might be understood as religious aspects of American life, and looks at how the spiritual or religious dimensions of American cultural life have been expressed in gnosticism, the mass media, and consumerism. One commentator, Wilson notes, suggested that there are no longer any religions as such in America today, but only religious "brands." Wilson himself sees America as a place where there is room for Old World traditions and new spiritual initiatives, a modern nation remarkably hospitable to ancient preoccupations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-09
Category : United States
ISBN : 013432238X

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The American Nation Sixth Edition Ssg 1998c by Anonim Pdf

Author : Colin Woodard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698181717

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American Character by Colin Woodard Pdf

The author of American Nations examines the history of and solutions to the key American question: how best to reconcile individual liberty with the maintenance of a free society The struggle between individual rights and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of nearly every major disagreement in our history, from the debates at the Constitutional Convention and in the run up to the Civil War to the fights surrounding the agendas of the Federalists, the Progressives, the New Dealers, the civil rights movement, and the Tea Party. In American Character, Colin Woodard traces these two key strands in American politics through the four centuries of the nation’s existence, from the first colonies through the Gilded Age, Great Depression and the present day, and he explores how different regions of the country have successfully or disastrously accommodated them. The independent streak found its most pernicious form in the antebellum South but was balanced in the Gilded Age by communitarian reform efforts; the New Deal was an example of a successful coalition between communitarian-minded Eastern elites and Southerners. Woodard argues that maintaining a liberal democracy, a society where mass human freedom is possible, requires finding a balance between protecting individual liberty and nurturing a free society. Going to either libertarian or collectivist extremes results in tyranny. But where does the “sweet spot” lie in the United States, a federation of disparate regional cultures that have always strongly disagreed on these issues? Woodard leads readers on a riveting and revealing journey through four centuries of struggle, experimentation, successes and failures to provide an answer. His historically informed and pragmatic suggestions on how to achieve this balance and break the nation’s political deadlock will be of interest to anyone who cares about the current American predicament—political, ideological, and sociological.

Author : Jill Lepore
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631496424

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This America: The Case for the Nation by Jill Lepore Pdf

From the acclaimed historian and New Yorker writer comes this urgent manifesto on the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century. At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America, a follow-up to her much-celebrated history of the United States, These Truths. With dangerous forms of nationalism on the rise, Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, repudiates nationalism here by explaining its long history—and the history of the idea of the nation itself—while calling for a “new Americanism”: a generous patriotism that requires an honest reckoning with America’s past. Lepore begins her argument with a primer on the origins of nations, explaining how liberalism, the nation-state, and liberal nationalism, developed together. Illiberal nationalism, however, emerged in the United States after the Civil War—resulting in the failure of Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow, and the restriction of immigration. Much of American history, Lepore argues, has been a battle between these two forms of nationalism, liberal and illiberal, all the way down to the nation’s latest, bitter struggles over immigration. Defending liberalism, as This America demonstrates, requires making the case for the nation. But American historians largely abandoned that defense in the 1960s when they stopped writing national history. By the 1980s they’d stopped studying the nation-state altogether and embraced globalism instead. “When serious historians abandon the study of the nation,” Lepore tellingly writes, “nationalism doesn’t die. Instead, it eats liberalism.” But liberalism is still in there, Lepore affirms, and This America is an attempt to pull it out. “In a world made up of nations, there is no more powerful way to fight the forces of prejudice, intolerance, and injustice than by a dedication to equality, citizenship, and equal rights, as guaranteed by a nation of laws.” A manifesto for a better nation, and a call for a “new Americanism,” This America reclaims the nation’s future by reclaiming its past.

Author : Lewis Paul Todd,Merle Eugene Curti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000022888389

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The American Nation by Lewis Paul Todd,Merle Eugene Curti Pdf

Author : Lewis Paul Todd,Merle Eugene Curti
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 0153760427

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Rise of the American Nation by Lewis Paul Todd,Merle Eugene Curti Pdf

A textbook tracing the political, social, and economic history of the United States from the discovery of America to the present day.

Author : Lewis Paul Todd,Merle Eugene Curti
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 0153760303

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Rise of the American Nation by Lewis Paul Todd,Merle Eugene Curti Pdf

A textbook tracing the political, social, and economic history of the United States from the discovery of America to the 1980s. Secondary level.

Author : Robert H. Ferrell
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015009937684

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Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921 by Robert H. Ferrell Pdf

Describes the role of Woodrow Wilson as a wartime President.