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Bonds of Affection : Americans Define Their Patriotism.

During the Civil War, Walt Whitman described his admiration for the Union soldiers' loyalty to the ideal of democracy. His argument, that this faith bonded Americans to their nation, has received little critical attention, yet today it raises increasingly relevant questions about American patri...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bodnar, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1996.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover Page
  • Half-title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Attractions of Patriotism
  • Chapter 1. Teaching Patriotism: Private Virtue for the Public Good in the Early Republic
  • Chapter 2. ""Blood Brotherhood"": The Racialization of Patriotism, 1865-1918
  • Chapter 3. Labor Republicanism, Race, and Popular Patriotism in the Era of Empire, 1890-1914
  • Chapter 4. Reading the Flag: A Reconsideration of the Patriotic Cults of the 1890s
  • Chapter 5. A Christian Nation: Signs of a Covenant
  • Chapter 6. Women, Citizenship, and Civic Sacrifice: Engendering Patriotism in the First World War
  • Chapter 7. Patriotism in Orange: The Memory of World War I in a Massachusetts Town
  • Chapter 8. Dreaming in Black and White: African-American Patriotism and World War II Bonds
  • Chapter 9. In the Mirror of the Enemy: Japanese Political Culture and the Peculiarities of American Patriotism in World War II
  • Chapter 10. ""Good Americans"": Nationalism and Domesticity in Life Magazine, 1945-1960
  • Chapter 11. Dilemmas of Beset Nationhood: Patriotism, the Family, and Economic Change in the 1970s and 1980s
  • Chapter 12. Exalting ""U.S.ness"": Patriotic Rituals of the Daughters of the American Revolution
  • Chapter 13. Moral Patriotism and Collective Memory in Whiting, Indiana, 1920-1992
  • Chapter 14. ""Talking Lords Who Dare Not Face the Foe"": Civilian Rule and the Military Notion of Patriotism in the Clinton Presidency
  • Afterword: Nationalism in Europe
  • Contributors
  • Index