Screen LibraryAmerican imaginaries : nations, societies, and capitalism in the many Americas /
"This volume offers a transnational perspective on two centuries of historical experiences in the Americas, providing comparative analysis of different states and societies in the Americas from a perspective consistent with the Social Imaginaries movement"--
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Rowman & Littlefield,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Social imaginaries
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"This volume offers a transnational perspective on two centuries of historical experiences in the Americas, providing comparative analysis of different states and societies in the Americas from a perspective consistent with the Social Imaginaries movement"-- American Imaginaries: Nations, Societies and Capitalism in the Many Americas examines the diverse societies and nations of the Western hemisphere as they have emerged across the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring cities, capitalism, nations, nationalism, and politics from both comparative and transnational perspectives, this book develops a unique approach based on the paradigms of civilizational analysis and social imaginaries. In addition to providing a fresh perspectives on the Americas, American Imaginaries gives proper analysis of multinational and intra-national regions, and, crucially, the civilizational force of resurgent indigenous nations. This book also covers regions often underemphasized in histories of the hemisphere, such as Central America and the Caribbean--back cover. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 227 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-219) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781786609670 1786609673 |
| Index Number: | E20 |
| CLC: | K700.3 |
| Call Number: | K700.3/S651 |
| Contents: | Part I. American imaginaries: dimensions of national societies : 1. Introduction -- 2. Making Americans: migration and cities as metropolitan imaginaries -- 3. Creating capitalism: national states and regional patterns -- 4. Political imaginaries, political traditions: ideologies and state formation -- Part II: Transnational regions of the diverse Americas : 5. The undeclared empire?: US power in the Western hemisphere and beyond -- 6. A region of regions: provincializing the Americas -- 7. First Nations movements and Indigenous modernities -- 8. Conclusion: civilizational analysis, multiple imaginaries, and the diverse Americas. |