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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Annual Conclave
Author: Knights Templar (Masonic order). Grand Commandery (Mich.)
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Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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American Niceness
Author: Carrie Tirado Bramen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674982363
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 381
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The cliché of the Ugly American—loud, vulgar, materialistic, chauvinistic—still expresses what people around the world dislike about their Yankee counterparts. Carrie Tirado Bramen recovers the history of a very different national archetype—the nice American—which has been central to ideas of U.S. identity since the nineteenth century. Niceness is often assumed to be a superficial concept unworthy of serious analysis. Yet the distinctiveness of Americans has been shaped by values of sociality and likability for which the adjective “nice” became a catchall. In America’s fledgling democracy, niceness was understood to be the indispensable trait of a people who were refreshingly free of Old World snobbery. Bramen elucidates the role niceness plays in a particular fantasy of American exceptionalism, one based not on military and economic might but on friendliness and openness. Niceness defined the attitudes of a plucky (and white) settler nation, commonly expressed through an affect that Bramen calls “manifest cheerfulness.” To reveal its contested inflections, Bramen shows how American niceness intersects with ideas of femininity, Native American hospitality, and black amiability. Who claimed niceness and why? Despite evidence to the contrary, Americans have largely considered themselves to be a fundamentally nice and decent people, from the supposedly amicable meeting of Puritans and Native Americans at Plymouth Rock to the early days of American imperialism when the mythology of Plymouth Rock became a portable emblem of goodwill for U.S. occupation forces in the Philippines.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674982363
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 381
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The cliché of the Ugly American—loud, vulgar, materialistic, chauvinistic—still expresses what people around the world dislike about their Yankee counterparts. Carrie Tirado Bramen recovers the history of a very different national archetype—the nice American—which has been central to ideas of U.S. identity since the nineteenth century. Niceness is often assumed to be a superficial concept unworthy of serious analysis. Yet the distinctiveness of Americans has been shaped by values of sociality and likability for which the adjective “nice” became a catchall. In America’s fledgling democracy, niceness was understood to be the indispensable trait of a people who were refreshingly free of Old World snobbery. Bramen elucidates the role niceness plays in a particular fantasy of American exceptionalism, one based not on military and economic might but on friendliness and openness. Niceness defined the attitudes of a plucky (and white) settler nation, commonly expressed through an affect that Bramen calls “manifest cheerfulness.” To reveal its contested inflections, Bramen shows how American niceness intersects with ideas of femininity, Native American hospitality, and black amiability. Who claimed niceness and why? Despite evidence to the contrary, Americans have largely considered themselves to be a fundamentally nice and decent people, from the supposedly amicable meeting of Puritans and Native Americans at Plymouth Rock to the early days of American imperialism when the mythology of Plymouth Rock became a portable emblem of goodwill for U.S. occupation forces in the Philippines.
Orations and Addresses--
Author: Valentine Tilden Tustin
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Metrical Lay Sermons. [The Preface Signed: H. B., I.e. Henry Bateman.]
Author: Henry BATEMAN (of Clapton.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Languages : en
Pages : 292
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The International Steam Engineer
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Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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In the Old Paths
Author: Arthur Grant
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky ...
Author: Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Kentucky
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Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Liahona
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Category : Mormon Church
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Category : Mormon Church
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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