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What is America?

a short history of the new world order

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An edition of What is America? (2008)

What is America?

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In the six years since 9/11, as the bush regime has squandered domestic solidarity and international goodwill, many of the archetypes and ideals with which we’ve traditionally framed the American enterprise now seem endangered, even hollow. This raises the question, has America ever been what it thinks it is? What Is America? goes to the heart of that inquiry. Ranging with dazzling expertise through anthropology, history, and literature, Wright reconfigures our self-perception, arguing that the “essence” of America can be traced to the foundations of our history-literally to the collision of worlds that began in 1492, as one civilization subsumed another-and exploring how these currents continue to shape our world.

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Da Capo
Language
English
Pages
368

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Social conditions, World politics, History, Nonfiction
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United States

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-349) and index.

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[Cambridge, MA]

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Dewey Decimal Class
973

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Pagination
368 p. ;
Number of pages
368

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OL23097808M
Internet Archive
whatisamericasho00wrig
ISBN 10
0786720972
ISBN 13
9780786720972
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5820200
Goodreads
3779848

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