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▪ Abstract American exceptionalism is the oldest and most contentious of the alleged national exceptionalisms—arguments that a given nation must be understood in essentially idiosyncratic fashion. John Winthrop, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Karl Marx helped develop and sustain an American variant for the first 350 years of a separate American political ...
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A Critical Analysis of the Political Discourse of Exceptionalism in the American Sniper Movie
Political discourse usually tends to diffuse itself in other discursive fields. One of the areas through which the political field can be reproduced is the field of popular culture, especially films. Moreover, language serves as the intermediate variable
Hamdallah Akvani +2 more
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The Effects of the “Black Lives Matter” Movement on the International Approach of the US Government to Human Rights [PDF]
The “Black Lives Matter” civil rights movement has left profound effects on the international approach of the US government toward human rights. This movement reached its peak in 2020 and profoundly affected culture, politics, and policy making in the US.
Nasrin Mosaffa, Ali Nazifpour
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American Exceptionalism in American Samoa
American Samoa has been a territory of the United States for 108 years. For fifty ears of this period, American Samoa was administered by the U.S. Navy.
Karen Armstrong
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Research Universities: American Exceptionalism?
At the top of the higher education pyramid in the United States we find the public and private research universities with their special role of creating and maintaining knowledge, training graduate students in arts and sciences and professional schools ...
Henry Rosovsky
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The Fifties have been consolidated in the American ethos as one of the best times in American history, the iconography of which was vigorously evoked during Reagan’s presidency in an attempt to erase the civil rights victories of the Sixties.
Anna Ferrari
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Jeremy Belknap and the Origins of American Exceptionalism
This paper analyses the commercial and institutional context in which Jeremy Belknap founded the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1791-1792. It reads his “Four Dissertations” of 1792 as a series of methodological and theoretical arguments in favor of ...
Agnès Delahaye
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“Colonial Problems, Transnational American Studies”
Excerpt from After American Studies: Rethinking Legacies of Transnational ...
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera
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This study provides a comparative perspective on the ways U.S. presidents have communicated the idea of American exceptionalism for American and international audiences. I argue that U.S. presidents strategically highlight this culturally potent idea in
Jason Gilmore
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Donald E. Pease, The New American Exceptionalism
Donald E. Pease, The New American Exceptionalism (Minneapolis-London, University of Minnesota Press, 2009, pp.
Cinzia Scarpino
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