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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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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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Contemporary Nordic Public Policies

Springer Polar Sciences

This book 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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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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Shadia B. Drury
Chauvinism of the West

This book is a critical exploration of the intellectual foundations of American foreign policy on the left and the right. The left is inspired by Immanuel Kant's idea that spreading democracy is the key t…

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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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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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Felix Klindworth
Zwischen Ausnahmezustand und Souveränitätsbehauptung

'Between Exceptionalism and Expressing Sovereignty': The thesis examines the security exception clause in international economic law. It analyses the dogmatic foundations, historical origins and susceptib…

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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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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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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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Frans de Waal
Minds I've Met

How humans think about animals-and our place among them-has undergone a seismic change. Breaking old scientific taboos and never shying away from controversial topics, renowned primatologist Frans de Waal…

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Stephanie Inge Rudwick, Angela Nwagbo, Martin Schmiedl
An African Diaspora in the Making

This book addresses the timely research field of Afropean identity politics and provides a first account of the lived experience of Afroczechs and Africans in Czechia. Against the background of country-sp…

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Thomas Xavier Sarmiento
The Heartland of U.S. Empire

Asian American History & Cultu

Examining Filipinx cultural representations in the Midwest since the early twentieth century, Thomas Sarmiento shrewdly considers the impact of American exceptionalism and U.S. imperialism in a region whe…

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Thomas Xavier Sarmiento
The Heartland of U.S. Empire

Asian American History & Cultu

Examining Filipinx cultural representations in the Midwest since the early twentieth century, Thomas Sarmiento shrewdly considers the impact of American exceptionalism and U.S. imperialism in a region whe…

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Christine Webb
The Arrogant Ape

Most people are certain that humans are the most intelligent, sophisticated, successful species on earth. But what if we're wrong? And what if our arrogant human exceptionalism is leading us to exploit th…

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