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Alys D. Beverton
Exceptionalism in Crisis

Before 1861, US Americans could confidently claim to belong to the New World's "exceptional" republic, unlike other self-governing nations in the Western Hemisphere such as Mexico, which struggl…

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Alys D. Beverton
Exceptionalism in Crisis

Before 1861, US Americans could confidently claim to belong to the New World's "exceptional" republic, unlike other self-governing nations in the Western Hemisphere such as Mexico, which struggl…

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Christine Webb,
Der arrogante Affe

Das Selbstverständnis der Menschheit als "Krone der Schöpfung" bestimmt maßgeblich, wie wir uns gegenüber anderen Spezies verhalten. Doch was ist, wenn diese arrogante Haltung auf einer Ideologi…

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Contemporary Nordic Public Policies

The volume offers a comparative and multidisciplinary examination of the formulation and implementation of public policy within the Nordic region. It seeks to present these efforts within the context of a…

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Aanchal Vij
Narratives of Nostalgia and Repair in American Comics and Literature

Through a study of both novels and comic books of 20th and 21st century, this book claims that it is not possible to create any narrative of exceptionalism without also manufacturing a sense of nostalgia …

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Sean P Connors, Roberta Seelinger Trites
Neoliberalism and Young Adult Fiction

In the twenty-first century, the influence of neoliberalism, the belief that society benefits when both individuals and corporations are free to maximize their talents in the service of responding to soci…

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Raymond Patton
In-Between Empire

Exploring how Polish writers positioned themselves as neither colonized nor colonizers, In-Between Empire analyses their literary works on empire during the 19th and 20th centuries to explore how they neg…

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Sean P Connors, Roberta Seelinger Trites
Neoliberalism and Young Adult Fiction

In the twenty-first century, the influence of neoliberalism, the belief that society benefits when both individuals and corporations are free to maximize their talents in the service of responding to soci…

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Liina-Ly Roos,
The Not-Quite Child

Examines Swedish depictions of childhood that expose the country's colonial past and racial hierarchiesFigures like Pippi Longstocking and Greta Thunberg exemplify an ideal mainstream Swedish childhood: t…

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Christian Welzel, Stefan Kruse, Lennart Brunkert, Steven A. Brieger
The Cool Water Effect

This open access book unravels the geo-climatic source of the West's emancipatory struggles and why the spirit of these struggles is about to spread around the world beyond its original geo-climatic root-…

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Timothy Williamson
Good as Usual

Good as Usualargues that contemporary discussion on the nature of norms and values goes wrong by treating them as exceptional and mysterious, since they do not fit popular philosophical assumptions about …

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The Exceptional North

From 18th-century accounts to contemporary discourse, this book critically examines the notion of 'Nordic exceptionalism'. Through careful historical analysis, it explores how external observers have perc…

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Brian Massumi
The Personality of Power

Thought in the Act

"I am the Chosen One!" With this exclamation Donald Trump crowns the national exceptionalism his base upholds with a claim of personal exceptionalism. He leaves no doubt as to the emotional note…

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Sebastian Sobecki
The Invention of Colonialism

This Element argues that medieval texts conveyed the essence of expansionist mercantilism and colonialism, which shaped early English exceptionalism. The argument is threefold: Hakluyt and contemporaries …

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Sebastian Sobecki
The Invention of Colonialism

This Element argues that medieval texts conveyed the essence of expansionist mercantilism and colonialism, which shaped early English exceptionalism. The argument is threefold: Hakluyt and contemporaries …

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Amy Kaplan
Our American Israel

How did a Jewish state come to resonate profoundly with Americans in the twentieth century? Since WWII, Israel's identity has been entangled with America's belief in its own exceptionalism. Turning a crit…

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Tim Kane
The Immigrant Superpower

In The Immigrant Superpower, Tim Kane argues that immigration has long been a source of American strength and that exceptional immigrants have been crucial to American exceptionalism. Deftly combining sto…

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Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
Naturekind

A new paradigm that integrates human and nonhuman communication and cultureAre language and culture uniquely human, justifying an exceptionalism that sets people apart from the rest of nature? New discove…

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Owen Clayton
Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos

The most enduring version of the hobo that has come down from the so-called 'Golden Age of Tramping' (1890s to 1940s) is an American cultural icon, signifying freedom from restraint and rebellion to the e…

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American Borders

American Borders: Inclusion and Exclusion in US Culture provides an overview of American culture produced in a range of contexts, from the founding of the nation to the age of globalization and neoliberal…

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