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Just like us : the American struggle to understand foreigners /
"Americans have long considered themselves a people set apart. Yet American exceptionalism is built on a set of tacit beliefs about other cultures. From the founding exclusion of indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans to the uneasy welcome of waves of immigrants, from republican disavowals of...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2020]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- I. The Challenge of Contact with Foreigners
- II. Freedom: American Culture as Human Nature
- III. Inbound: Immigrants from Internal Threat to Incorporation
- IV. Lurking: Communists and the Threat of Captivity
- V. Outbound: U.S. Expansion Into Foreign Lands
- VI. Subversion: The Power of American Culture in a Global Era
- Conclusion: Not So Foreign After All
- Notes
- Index