American exceptionalism : a new history of an old idea /
"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 c...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
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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.