American Exceptionalism Vol 2

ISBN-13: 9781138750098 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 372 str.

Timothy Roberts;Lindsay DiCuirci

Opis

American exceptionalism - the idea that America is fundamentally distinct from other nations - is a philosophy that has dominated economics, politics, religion and culture for two centuries. This collection of primary source material seeks to understand how this belief began, how it developed and why it remains popular.

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Comte De Mirabeau, Reflections on the Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution; Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Reflections on the Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, and the Means of Making it a Benefit to the World, trans. Richard Price, new edn (Philadelphia, PA: Printed by T. Seddon and W. Spotswood, 1786).; Timothy Dwight, Search for Cultural and International Security; [Timothy Dwight], ‘An Essay on American Genius’, New Haven Gazette and Connecticut Magazine (1 February 1787), pp. 381–2.; Timothy Dwight, A Discourse on Some Events of the Last Century, Delivered in the Brick Church in New Haven, on Wednesday, January 7, 1801 (New Haven, CT: Printed by Ezrea Read, 1801).; Tilton, ‘An Oration’; James Tilton, ‘An Oration, Pronounced on the 5th of July, 1790’, Columbian Magazine or Monthly Miscellany, 5 (1790), pp. 369–73.; Winchester, An Oration On The Discovery Of America; Elhanan Winchester, An Oration on the Discovery of America. Delivered in London, October the 12 th , 1792. Being Three Hundred Years from the Day on which Columbus Landed in the New World (London: Printed for the Author and Sold by him at the Vestry of the Chapel in Parliament Court, 1792).; Barnard, Thanksgiving Sermon; Thomas Barnard, Thanksgiving Sermon, February 19, 1795 (Salem, MA: Printed by Thomas C. Cushing, 1795).; Rhees, The Good Samaritan; Morgan John Rhees, The Good Samaritan. An Oration Delivered on Sunday Evening, May 22d, 1796, in Behalf of the Philadelphia Society for the Information and Assistance of Persons Emigrating from Foreign Countries (Philadelphia, PA: Printed by Land & Ustick, 1796).; Holmes, Two Discourses, on The Completion of The Second Century From The Landing of The Forefathers of New England at Plymouth; Abiel Holmes, Two Discourses, on the Completion of the Second Century from the Landing of the Forefathers of New England at Plymouth, 22 Dec. 1620, Delivered at Cambrdge 24Dec. 1820 (Cambridge, MA: Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1821).; Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of Louisiana; Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of Louisiana. Which Assembled at the City of New Orleans January 14, 1844 (New Orleans: Besancon, Ferguson & Co., 1845).; Catholicism in the Early United States; Orestes Augustus Brownson, ‘Legitimacy and Revolutionism, – Conservatism and Reform’, Brownson’s Quarterly Review, 2:4 (1848), pp. 453–82.; John Joseph Hughes, The Church and the World. A Lecture: Delivered at the Chinese Museum, Philadelphia, on Thursday Evening. January 31, 1850 (New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1850).; Southern Quarterly Review; Anon., ‘Guizot’s Democracy in France’, Southern Quarterly Review, 15:29 (1849), pp. 114–65.; Anon., ‘The Present State of Europe’, Southern Quarterly Review, 16:32 (1850), pp. 277–323.; Stiles, Address Delivered before the Georgia Democratic State Convention; William Henry Stiles, Address Delivered before the Georgia Democratic State Convention, Assembled at Milledgeville, July 4 tb , 1856 (Atlanta: Printed at the ‘Examiner’ Office, 1856).; Williams, The American Negro; George Washington Williams, The American Negro, from 1776 to 1876; Oration Delivered July 4, 1876, at Avondale, Ohio (Cincinnati, OH: Robert Clarke & Co., 1876); Snow, ‘Colony’,-Or ‘Free State’? ‘Dependence’, -Or ‘Just Connection’? ‘Empire,-Or Union’?; Alpheus H. Snow, ‘ Colony’,-or ‘Free State’? ‘Dependence’-or ‘Just Connection’? c Empire’,-or Union’? An Essay Based of the Political Philosophy of the American Revolution, as Summarized in the Declaration of Independence, towards the Ascertainment of the Nature of the Political Relationship Between the American Union and Its Annexed Insular Regions (Washington, DC, 1907).

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Timothy Roberts