Marks of distinction
Subtitle: American exceptionalism revisited
By: edited by Dale Carter.
Contributors: Carter, Dale, 1957-
Series: The Dolphin -- 32.; Dolphin (Århus, Denmark) -- no. 32.
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Aarhus C., Denmark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: United States -- Civilization.
Other titles: American exceptionalism revisited.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: Introduction: the death and life of an exceptional concept / Dale Carter; Recovering America's historic diversity: beyond exceptionalism / Joyce Appleby; A city upon a hill: American literature and the ideology of exceptionalism / Thomas B. Byers; Writing, criticism and the imagination of nation: American exceptionalism and the evolution of American studies / James Mendelsohn; Technology and cultural difference / David E. Nye; No special relation: British perceptions of ante-bellum America's growing pains / Inger Hunnerup Dalsgaard; Newt's clean slate, or American exceptionalism in the information age / Eric Guthey; 'A divided empire': African Americans, the South, and the narrative of American exceptionalism / Peter Bardaglio; A college upon a hill: exceptionalism and American higher education / John Halsey and W. Bruce Leslie; 'They came to lawyers, you know, what can you do?' American exceptionalism and judicial activism / Helle Porsdam; 'Against any winds that blow': American exceptionalism, multiculturalism, and judicial review / Jody W. Pennington; The problem of American exceptionalism: a reconsideration / Michael Kammen.