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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"American Nationalism"”.
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Greek American nationalism: the Vervena Society
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1968 C447
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Greek American nationalism: the Vervena Society
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1968 C447
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Double Characters: The Making of American Nationalism in Kentucky, 1792--1833
This study investigates how Kentuckians employed nationalism as they negotiated the important political and social issues of the era. As residents of the first state in the trans-Appalachian West, many Kentuckians in the 1790s were antagonistic towards the new federal government to the point of …
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From Native to Nation: Copway’s American Indian Newspaper and Formation of American Nationalism
… argues that the publication of Copway’s American Indian (1851) challenges accepted representations of nineteenth-century American Native peoples by countering popular stereotypes. Interrogating a multiplicity of cultural artifacts at the moment of their meeting and investigating the …
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"One Hundred Per Cent American": Nationalism, Masculinity and American Legion Baseball in the 1920s
"'One Hundred Per Cent American': Nationalism, Masculinity and American Legion Baseball in the 1920s," provides a sociohistorical analysis of baseball and social attitudes and ideologies of the pre- and post-World War I period, specifically focusing on the joining of nationalism and masculinity …
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American Nationalism in the Early Twenty-first Century: A Discursive Analysis of the Politics of Immigration and National Security
… enlists the support of a sizeable portion of the American public? First, this thesis works to put into context what drove post-World War II immigration in the U.S. to provide insight into what conditions lead to certain groups being encouraged or discouraged from immigrating. Second, I contrast …
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"Swear this flag to live, for this flag to die": Flag Imagery in Constructing the Narrative of the Civil War and the Transformation of American Nationalism
The Civil War transformed nationalism in American society and created a notion of national identity closely tied to flag iconography. Flag symbolism developed as the prominent visualization of nationalism in American culture during and after the Civil War. The flags of the Civil War - namely the …
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The Primacy of the Individual: Its Affirmation in the Declaration of Independence and in the American Scholar
… have concerned themselves with the ideas in The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Indeed, thinkers of every variety have Interested themselves in these two paramount documents because their contents prove them to be genuine instruments of American nationalism. In short, each of these …
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The path to prominence: Nationalism and the Library of Congress, 1835-1897
Basic components of nineteenth century American nationalism influenced the creation of a national library in the United States. Manifest destiny, mission, nativism, and cultural nationalism provided the impetus to build an institution that preserved, symbolized, and spread national thought and …
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Colonizing the Mind: The Library as a Site for Colonial American Identity Formation
… period shortly before the complete onset of American nationalism. The process of "becoming American," the development of an identity tied to a specific location that emphases class mobility and self creation while also differentiating itself from other societies, is enumerated through the …
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"And the Great Dragon was Thrown Down:" A Historical Examination of the Protestant Stewardship Theological Principle
… two issues of natural science and religion and American nationalism. The final part explores the modern representatives and continuances of these historical fundamentals. The modern stewardship movement has not sporadically awakened with the modern Evangelical political movement, nor has it been …
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American Machiavelli: Samuel P. Huntington the Author of Grand Strategy
… topical focus according to the contingencies of American politics and comprehensively-expressed views on the purpose and shortcomings of political ideology in the Cold War. With this more complete biographical context, the thesis also responds to the increasingly common attribution of …
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CAPTIVATING A NATION: WOMEN'S INDIAN CAPTIVITY AND AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY, 1787-1830
… of Indian captivity had long interested Anglo-American readers. Throughout the early republic, the genre of women's Indian captivity narratives took on another significance. "Captivating a Nation" places the scholarship of Indian captivity in conversation with American nationalism and reveals …
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“A Christian World Order:” Protestants, Democracy and Christian Aid to Germany, 1945-1961
… examines the relationship between the German and American Protestantism from 1945-1961. I argue that in response to the threat of Nazism and communism, mainline ecumenical American Protestants aimed to create a universalist “Christian World Order” based on liberal democracy and Christian ethics. …
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Claude McKay and the transnational novel
… 1930s. Chapter One explores McKay’s urban North American novel, Home to Harlem (1928). I suggest that we need to ‘reworld’ conceptions of McKay’s writing in order to release him from his canonical confinement in the Harlem Renaissance. Querying the problematics of the city space, of sexuality and …
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The Poet's Place: Individuality and Collectivity in Modern American Poetry, 1910-1940
<p>This dissertation examines how modern American poets such as H.D., T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, and others created new modes of lyricism, ones based not on privacy and the celebration of an individual self but on community, collectivity, and chorality. In examining the development of these new …
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Children of men: the American jeremiad in twentieth and twenty-first century science fiction and film
… resilient influence of the jeremiad, an early American religious and literary mode, on contemporary American literature and culture. It argues that the polemical, dystopian, and apocalyptic narratives so abundant in twentieth-century literature and film participate in an ingrained literary …
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Star Spangled Saints: Ritual Practices that Legitimate War and Violence in the American Church
… analyze the ways in which the conservative,<br />American church has been ideologically and ritualistically shaped by an imperial culture enamored with war, the military, and violence; and how those positions and practices, in effect, legitimate war and the military. While many authors have …
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How Does Religion Shape Filipino Immigrants` Connection to the Public Sphere? Imagining a Different Self-Understanding of Modernity
… does religion shape immigrants` understanding of American citizenship? 2) How do immigrants constitute a sense of empowered citizenship via the civic and religious institutions they navigate? 3) Does religion act as a preserving force of traditional Filipino culture within American society? 4) To …
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Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan, 1946-1962
… people. Drawing methodological insight from American pragmatist philosophy and social science, the group conducted statistical surveys and interviews, and produced content analyses of popular movies, novels, and comic books in an unusual experiment to probe the mind of the "common man." In …
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