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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Resnick, Philip, 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [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.