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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: American exceptionalism
    sub title: a new history of an old idea
  name:
    name part: Tyrrell, Ian
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 275 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "American exceptionalism" has been a surprisingly resilient and divisive concept. In this magisterial book, Ian Tyrrell shows that while the term is a relatively new one, the idea that American identity might be historically and globally distinctive emerged with the nation itself. As the country grew, the issue became the degree of exceptionality and how it was expressed. And as the country became a part of the global order, its exceptionalism came increasingly into question. How did a purportedly unique nation explain its entanglement with persistent global topics like slavery and racial discrimination, labor exploitation, settler colonialism and more? Today, even as demands to honor America's exceptionalism have grown more strident, Tyrrell argues that the material and moral evidence for it-if there ever was any-has withered away.
  table of contents: Introduction: The Peculiar Tale of American Exceptionalism -- The Puritans and American Chosenness -- Looking Back, Looking Forward: Remembering the Revolution -- Cultural Nationalism and the Origins of American Exceptionalism -- Lyman Beecher, Personal Identity, and the Christian Republic -- Women and Exceptionalism: The Self-Made Woman and the Power of Catharine Beecher -- Race, Anglo-Saxonism, and Manifest Destiny -- In the Hands of an Angry God: The Antislavery Jeremiad and the Origins of the Christian Nation -- Fin de Siècle Challenges: The Frontier, Labor, and American Imperialism -- Two Isms: Americanism and Socialism -- The Dream and the Century: The Liberal Exceptionalism of the New Deal State, 1930s-1960s -- The Newly Chosen Nation: Exceptionalism from Reagan to Trump.
  note: Ian Tyrrell.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Exceptionalism
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: E169.1 .T97 2021
  classification: 973
  identifier: 9780226812090
  identifier: 022681209X
  identifier: 9780226812120
  identifier: 022681212X
  identifier: 2021010982
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210309
    record change date: 20220404130004.9
    record identifier: in00004561009