The labyrinth of North American identities /
"What exactly does it mean to be North American? Europeans have been engaged in a long-running debate about the meaning and nature of Europe. The Labyrinth of North American Identities generates a similar discussion in the context of North America: what do we learn about North America as a unit...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Toronto, Ontario] :
University of Toronto Press,
©2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Quetzalcoatl's heirs
- Chosen peoples
- Trajectories to independence
- "Language has always been the perfect instrument of empire"
- Manifest destiny and the fate of a continent
- Market society and possessive individualism
- Democracy and its discontents
- The protean state
- New world utopias and dystopias
- An archipelago of regions
- A North American civilization?
- Dwellers of the labyrinth.