Regionalism and Nationalism in the United States: The Attack on Leviathan

ISBN-13: 9781138531642 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 388 str.

Donald Davidson

Opis

A quarter of a century before Lyndon B. Johnson popularized the slogan "The Great Society," Donald Davidson wrote his critique of Leviathan, the omnipotent nation-state, in terms that only recently have come to be appreciated

Spis treści

The Nation We Are; I: The Diversity of America; II: T wo Interpretations of American History; III: Social Science Discovers Regionalism; IV: Regionalism in the Arts; V: Federation or Disunion : The Political Economy of Regionalism; Immovable Bodies and Irresistible Forces; VI: Still Rebels , S till Yankees; VII: New York and the Hinterland; VIII: The Two Old Wests; IX: The Great Plains; X: American Heroes; XI: Regionalism and Nationalism in American Literature; XII: Regionalism and Education 1; Southern Essays; XIII: The Dilemma of the Southern Liberals 1; XIV: Howard Odum and the Sociological Proteus; XV: Expedients vs . Principles –C ross -Purposes in the South; XVI: The Southern Poet and His Tradition 1; The World State; XVII: The Shape of Things and Men : H. G. W ells and Æ on the World State

O autorze

Donald Davidson