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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"American nation"”.
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… of three uncommon commoners in the early American republic: Richard O’Brien (1758–1824), James Cathcart (1767–1843) and James Riley (1777-1840). As a biographical microhistory, this study explores how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the maritime and western …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… of three uncommon commoners in the early American republic: Richard O’Brien (1758–1824), James Cathcart (1767–1843) and James Riley (1777-1840). As a biographical microhistory, this study explores how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the maritime and western …
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Construcciones Literarias Del Artista E Intelectual Del Siglo XIX en Hispanoamerica
… the formation, transculturation and miscegenation of the Spanish American subaltern artists and intellectuals in their quest for the reconstruction of a modern and authentic Spanish American nation/narration.
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"Washington in Golry": Clerical Reflections on the Death of George Washington and the Making of a New Nation
… transcended local boundaries, bringing an entire nation together to mourn their fallen leader. By ruminating on a number of theological as well as political themes, clergymen across the country used their words to help shape the country’s collective identity, defining Americans as set apart by …
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Noah Webster spelled out
… that Webster intended to shape the entire American nation through his writings and through its public education system. Relying primarily on Webster's early works and his dictionary (1828), I discovered his strong convictions against slavery, his promotion of formal education for women, his …
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Freemasons in government in the United States, 1776-1840.
… wilderness. In a spirit of independence, the American colonists overthrew the rule of the "Mother Country" and established the new American nation. Many of the leaders in the struggle for independence were also leaders in the Masonic Fraternity. The writers of the Constitution, a majority of …
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From Gunboats to Good Neighbors: U.S. Naval Diplomacy in Peru, 1919-1942
… States used to exercise influence in the South American nation of Peru: the employment of U.S. personnel as naval advisers to the Peruvian government, and the use of U.S. naval vessels as agents of public diplomacy on "goodwill" cruises and port visits in Peruvian waters. It argues that the …
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Cultural Preservation Through Promotion: Marketing The Muscogee Way
… tourism presents a unique opportunity for Native American communities seeking to reap the socioeconomic benefits of the tourism industry. The Muscogee Nation is one such community seeking to revitalize its culture and provide outsiders with an authentic experience of a Native American culture …
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'One nation under God': the pledge of allegiance as a ritual practice in American civil religion
… and then illustrates a neglect in the study of American civil religious ritual. It argues that a primary carrier for American civil religion has been the public school system and that one vehicle used in the task of perpetuating the American identity has been the civil religious ritual of saying …
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Making Muslims American: CAIR's Portrayal of American Muslims in Public Service Announcements
… and political fabric of our diverse country, the American media has historically portrayed Muslims as barbaric, irrational, and anti-modern non-citizens who reject the West and principles of peace, freedom, and tolerance. Many Islamic organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic …
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"Art is a Hardy Plant:" : Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the cultivation of a transitional aesthetics
… Benjamin Henry Latrobe's engagement with American scientific discourses gave rise to a transitional aesthetics that radically refigured his European-derived notions of art and architecture. Looking at a range of works by Latrobe -- a selection of theoretical writings, the Essay on …
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American archaeology and the conceptualization of preservation : Edgar Lee Hewett and the crafting of the 1906 Antiquities Act
… pre-Columbian settlements and the present American nation. The continuity was largely materially based, as the monumental architecture of the "ancient ones" was considered on par with that of Egypt. Contemporaneous Native Americans, the descendants of the "ancient ones," however, were seen …
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The Classics and the Broader Public in Philadelphia, 1783-1788: Avenues for Engagement
… political, and physical landscape. As the American nation commenced its republican experiment, references to the classics in Philadelphia especially emerged as a vehicle and vocabulary employed by statesmen for fashioning a people, political culture, and national identity. According to …
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Washoe Redux: Territory, Sovereignty, and Anthropologists
… events. The Washoe, unlike many other groups of American Indians, never entered into treaties or agreements with the federal government. In the absence of treaty recognition, the Washoe were left without any land and subsequently no homes, subsisting on the fringe of the newly arrived white …
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Constructing Comanche: Imperialism, Print Culture, and the Creation of the Most Dangerous Indian in Antebellum America
Anglo-American print sources during the antebellum era framed the Comanche as “the most powerful” or “the most dreaded” Indian whom settlers encountered on the frontier. This research examines the pivotal role that American print culture played in constructing dubious stereotypes of Comanche …
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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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The rules of perception : American color science, 1831-1931
… a more rational, harmonious, and efficient American polity starting from one of the very baseline perceptual components of reality - the experience of color. As part of this program, I argue secondly that color science was as much a matter of prescription as description - that is, color …
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Making policy for making selves in science and engineering: from Sputnik to global competition
… resources in science and engineering for the American nation. The main thesis of this work is that national narratives, mostly made up by images of nation, its problems and solutions, as defined by powerful social actors and groups, have significantly shaped policies and program-: for …
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Narrating Americanization: space and form in U.S. immigrant writing, 1890-1927
… and place. Drawing on theories of ethnicity, nation, and space, I argue that the particular features of an immigrant group and the region where it settles produce narratives that complicate how we understand processes of Americanization. I structure my analysis around three major forces of …
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Emergent identities: The African American common woman in United States literature, 1831--1903
… gender, and respectability in African American literature from 1831 to 1903 through the figure of the "common woman." As a category of analysis, the common woman is an alternative to the bourgeois African American heroine, and is characterized by a number of qualities: the lack of …
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