The labyrinth of North American identities /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Resnick, Philip, 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Toronto, Ontario] : University of Toronto Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Group identity > North America.
Transnationalism > Social aspects > North America.
National characteristics, American.
National characteristics, Canadian.
National characteristics, Mexican.
Canadians.
Mexicans.
Mexicains.
Identité collective > Amérique du Nord.
Transnationalisme > Aspect social > Amérique du Nord.
Américains.
Canadiens.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civics & Citizenship.
Civilization.
Group identity.
Nationalbewusstsein
North America > Civilization.
Amérique du Nord > Civilisation.
North America.
Nordamerika
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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