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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Americanism"”.
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Anti-Americanism, World Politics, and German-U.S. Relations
… O. Keohane's theoretical framework of anti-Americanism to examine German perceptions of U.S. foreign policy. Katzenstein and Keohane distinguish four distinctive types of anti-Americanism. Liberal anti-Americanism is a reaction to unpopular U.S. foreign policies. Social anti-Americanism …
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Midwestern Americanism: Fiction of the 'Middle Border,' 1900-1930
This PhD dissertation examines a neglected strand of Midwestern rural writing from the early twentieth century to ask how it responded to and, in many ways, contributed to key contemporary debates in American literature. In 1921, Carl Van Doren’s ‘Revolt from the Village’ essay substantially …
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Anti-Americanism: an exploration of a contested concept in Western Europe
Despite its popular currency and salience, anti-Americanism is understudied and misunderstood by social scientists. Even within academia, studies of anti-Americanism are often polemic, and logically or methodologically flawed. Focusing on Western Europe, we argue that anti-Americanism is a public …
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“True Americanism”: Race and citizenship in Ansel Adams’s photobooks, 1940–1960
The student, Lauren Johnson, accepted the attached license on 2019-07-01 at 13:35.
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A study of anti-Americanism in the British Labour Party, 1960-1997
The subject of the thesis is anti-Americanism in the British Labour Party between 1960 and 1997. The 'Introduction' examines the conceptual questions, as well as the historical heritage, of Socialist anti-Americanism. The body of the thesis is split into three case studies, each case study dealing …
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Netizenship Politics: Youth, Anti-Americanism, and Rhetorical Agency in South Korea's 2002 Candlelight Vigils
"This study offers a rhetorical analysis of the 2002 South Korean Candlelight Vigils [ch'otpul siwi] with a focus on the role of the Internet in public opinion building, the rise in anti-American sentiment in South Korea, and rhetorical agency residing in the collective. In 2002, two South Korean …
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The Yanks Are Striking: Kern County, the 1921 Oil Strike and the Discourse on Americanism
… embraced the burgeoning conservative identity of Americanism. This effectively hobbled the growth of the movement. Upon the strike’s conclusion there was no mass pull to the left on the part of oil workers in the San Joaquin Valley, despite the fact that their movement’s design and identity had …
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He is not one of U.S.: partisanship, perceptions of anti-Americanism & their consequences for democracy
… by investigating (1) how citizens define anti-Americanism, (2) which Americans are most likely to perceive it, and (3) how those perceptions shape inter- and intra-party support for hostility, anti-democratic behavior, and political violence. Using a mixed-methods design that includes …
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MUSIC ON THE MARCH: AMERICANISM, VETERANS’ ORGANIZATIONS, AND DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
… (including musical) identity in service of Americanism: their conception of the political, social, and cultural values of the United States. Through its deep-rooted association with the Legion and related organizations, drum and bugle corps—a marching arts tradition derived from military …
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Defining ‘Un-Americanism’ in Culture and Art: The Dies Committee’s Investigation of the Federal Theatre Project
… Committee’s (HUAC) expansive definition of ‘Un-Americanism’ through the body’s 1938 investigation of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP). The committee, then known as the Dies Committee after its chairman Martin Dies (D-TX), publicly presented the hearings as an attempt to root out communism in a …
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Storytelling, Myth, and the Dreams Therein: A Critical Analysis of the Intertextuality of Christianity, Capitalism, and Americanism
… dissertation, while dealing with many aspects of Americanism, argues that the hegemonic history of Christianity in America and the centrality of capitalism in national ethos have contributed to an impulse in the national psyche towards illusion. I argue that due to this impulse and privileging of …
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Old Europe versus New Europe: cultural similarity tolerance, religion and anti-Americanism in a divided European Union
This research focuses on anti-Americanism in Europe. Old Europe, including countries like France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium, is significantly more anti-American than New Europe, which includes countries such as Romania, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary. In this project, …
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Enlightened self-interest : how the national economy, ideology, and anti-Americanism influence public opinion on foreign investment
Despite the benefits of economic globalization, popular opposition to foreign investment continues to influence policy debates. What explains opposition to foreign investment? Standard political economy theories suggest that support for international trade, immigration, and investment all depend on …
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"The Highest Type of Disloyalty": The Struggle for Americanism in Louisiana During the Age of Communist Ascendency, 1930s-1960s
… of nation-building through state-sponsored "Americanism" programs. Students of Fortier and other high schools in the region were taught that to be American means specifically not to be Communist. This then is a contribution to the continuity of the politics of anti-communism in the United …
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Hearts and Minds: US Foreign Policy and Anti-Americanism in the Middle EastAn Analysis of Public Perceptions from 2002-2011
The literature on anti-Americanism in the Middle East suggests that there is a strong relationship between US foreign policy and public attitudes of the United States in the region. This study analyzes Middle Eastern public opinion of the United States from 2002 until 2011, while using quantitative …
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American Foreign Policy and Islamic Aggression
… and open source material pertaining to anti-Americanism and the political dynamics of Islamic aggression. The central argument produced from this research is that political grievances are generating anti-Americanism among Muslims, but the extraordinary value placed upon these grievances is …
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An investigation into what role anti-Americanism plays in attracting Middle Eastern Arab Sunni men to Islamist extremism, in the contemporary era
In order to address this research question at the appropriate length, breadth and depth, it has necessitated the use of texts and academic debates across ‘time and space’, both ancient and modern, crossing a range of disciplines and encompassing Western and Middle Eastern academic sources.
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O antiamericanismo e a política externa do governo Lula (2003-2010)
… to define the meaning of the concept of anti-Americanism; to draw a historical line in which this type of argument (contraposition between positions "pro-American" and "anti- American") falls, since the Republic Proclamation until the early 1990s; finally, seen from a quantitative and …
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O antiamericanismo e a política externa do governo Lula (2003-2010)
… to define the meaning of the concept of anti-Americanism; to draw a historical line in which this type of argument (contraposition between positions "pro-American" and "anti-American") falls, since the Republic Proclamation until the early 1990s; finally, seen from a quantitative and …
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