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Manifest destiny and empire : American antebellum expansionism
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ISBN: 0585369380 9780585369389 Year: 1997 Volume: 31 Publisher: College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press,

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Taiwan and Chinese nationalism : national identity and status in international society
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ISBN: 1134727550 1280318422 0585449015 0203444191 9780585449012 9780415157681 9780203444191 0415157684 9781134727551 9781280318429 9780203444191 9781134727506 9781134727544 9781138863026 Year: 1997 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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This study examines the problems which will inevitably arise as a result of China's claims on Taiwan, and analyses Taiwan's 'post-nationalist' identity.

Pulpit politics : faces of American Protestant nationalism in the twentieth century
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ISBN: 058509179X 9780585091792 0791431754 0791431762 1438422962 9780791431757 9780791431764 9781438422961 Year: 1997 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

Filibusters and expansionists
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ISBN: 0817388494 0585098085 9780585098081 9780817308803 0817308806 0817308806 Year: 1997 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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This compelling narrative demonstrates the passionate interest the Jeffersonian presidents had in wresting land from less powerful foes and expanding Jefferson''s ""empire of liberty."" The first two decades of the 19th century found many Americans eager to move away from the crowded eastern seaboard and into new areas where their goals of landownership might be realized. Such movement was encouraged by Presidents Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe- collectively known as the Jeffersonians- who believed that the country''s destiny was to have total control over the entire North American continent.

The nation as a local metaphor
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ISBN: 0807860840 9780807860847 0807823597 0807846651 9780807823590 9780807846650 0807846600 9780807846605 9798890868817 Year: 1997 Publisher: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press

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All nations make themselves up as they go along, but not all make themselves up in the same way. In this study, Alon Confino explores how Germans turned national and argues that they imagined the nation as an extension of their local place. In 1871, the work of political unification had been completed, but Germany remained a patchwork of regions with different histories and traditions. Germans had to construct a national memory to reconcile the peculiarities of the region and the totality of the nation. This identity project, examined by Confino as it evolved in the southwestern state of Wurttemberg, oscillated between failure and success. The national holiday of Sedan Day failed in the 1870s and 1880s to symbolically commingle localness and nationhood. Later, the idea of the Heimat, or homeland, did prove capable of representing interchangeably the locality, the region, and the nation in a distinct national narrative and in visual images. The German nationhood project was successful, argues Confino, because Germans made the nation into an everyday, local experience through a variety of cultural forms, including museums, school textbooks, popular poems, travel guides, posters, and postcards. But it was not unique. Confino situates German nationhood within the larger context of modernity, and in doing so he raises broader questions about how people in the modern world use the past in the construction of identity.

In the shadow of catastrophe
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ISBN: 0520926250 0585115478 9780520926257 9780585115474 0520207440 Year: 1997 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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These essays by eminent European intellectual and cultural historian Anson Rabinbach address the writings of key figures in twentieth-century German philosophy. Rabinbach explores their ideas in relation to the two world wars and the horrors facing Europe at that time. Analyzing the work of Benjamin and Bloch, he suggests their indebtedness to the traditions of Jewish messianism. In a discussion of Hugo Ball's little-known Critique of the German Intelligentsia, Rabinbach reveals the curious intellectual career of the Dadaist and antiwar activist turned-nationalist and anti-Semite. His examination of Heidegger's "Letter on Humanism" and Jaspers's The Question of German Guilt illuminates the complex and often obscure political referents of these texts. Turning to Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment, Rabinbach offers an arresting new interpretation of this central text of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School. Subtly and persuasively argued, his book will become an indispensable reference point for all concerned with twentieth-century German history and thought.

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