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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: great nation of futurity
    sub title: the discourse and temporality of American national identity
  name:
    name part: Dunmire, Patricia L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 200 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: "This book's central premise is that conceptions of American national identity and geopolitical purpose embed a crucial temporal element that situates the nation in a privileged position vis-à-vis the future. It argues that Cold War foreign policy discourse embeds the claim that America is the exemplar of the future and, as such, has a special right to shape the geopolitical future. It further argues that this claim is inherently hegemonic, as it legitimates a foreign policy focused on shaping the global future in the American image. The book's overall goal is to elucidate the discursive means by which the future—as a discursive construct, rhetorical resource, and conceptual space—has figured in America's conception of its place and purpose in the world. This project is situated within the discourse and ideology of American exceptionalism, which has undergirded the nation's identity throughout its history. It draws out the temporal dimension of the exceptionalist ideology, namely, the construal of America as the “great nation of futurity,” and examines how this identity manifests linguistically and functions rhetorically in Cold War foreign policy discourse. Working within a critical discourse analytic framework, this project examines the space-times construed within foreign policy discourse and demonstrates that these space-times consistently position the United States in a privileged position vis-à-vis the future. This positioning, in turn, sanctioned a foreign policy approach focused on global future design"--Publisher's description.
  table of contents: 1. Futurity, National Identity, and American Foreign Policy Discourse -- 2. "America's Most Precious Natural Resource": The Temporality of American Exceptionalism -- 3. "Vistas to the Future": Shaping the Postwar Future -- 4. "New Vistas of Opportunity": Modernizing the Other -- 5. "Alerting America": The Committee on the Present Danger and the Re-​Securitization of the Soviet Union -- 6. From the American Century to the End of History: An American Future of Democratic Peace -- 7. The Future of American Exceptionalism -- Notes -- Appendix: Data Bibliography
  note: Patricia L. Dunmire.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: National characteristics, American
  subject:
    topic: Nationalism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Exceptionalism
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Nationalisme
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Exceptionnalisme
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: 20th Century
  subject:
    topic: Modern
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
  subject:
    topic: Sociolinguistics
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
  subject:
    topic: Cultural
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: National characteristics, American
  subject:
    topic: Politics & government
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Government
  classification: E169.1 .D86 2023
  classification: 973
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    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
    identifier: (DLC) 2022950252
    identifier: (OCoLC)1368068202
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  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 230401
    record change date: 20260318165322.5
    record identifier: in00005698098
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng