Author: Constance Perin
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299115845
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Belonging in America gives voice to unspoken conventions and silent understandings and asks why our culture draws the lines it does--between home and work, family and friends, humans and animals. Throughout her fascinating book, Constance Perin shows us the systems of meaning through which contemporary American create social order and define their relationships.
Belonging in America
Author: Constance Perin
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299115845
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Belonging in America gives voice to unspoken conventions and silent understandings and asks why our culture draws the lines it does--between home and work, family and friends, humans and animals. Throughout her fascinating book, Constance Perin shows us the systems of meaning through which contemporary American create social order and define their relationships.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299115845
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Belonging in America gives voice to unspoken conventions and silent understandings and asks why our culture draws the lines it does--between home and work, family and friends, humans and animals. Throughout her fascinating book, Constance Perin shows us the systems of meaning through which contemporary American create social order and define their relationships.
Americans
Author: Edward Countryman
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 1466801239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this social history, Edward Countryman shows how interactions among America's different ethnic groups have contributed to our sense of nationality. From the earliest settlements along the Atlantic seaboard to the battle over our nation's destiny in the aftermath of the Civil War, Countryman reveals Americans in all their diverse complexity and shows why the very identity of "American"--forged by the African, the Indian, and the European alike--is what matters.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 1466801239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this social history, Edward Countryman shows how interactions among America's different ethnic groups have contributed to our sense of nationality. From the earliest settlements along the Atlantic seaboard to the battle over our nation's destiny in the aftermath of the Civil War, Countryman reveals Americans in all their diverse complexity and shows why the very identity of "American"--forged by the African, the Indian, and the European alike--is what matters.
Americans, a Collision of Histories
Author: Edward Countryman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809025930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
In recent decades it has become fashionable to maintain that the experience of various American ethnic groups - whether African, Indian, or European - is the most significant. In this important social history, the noted scholar Edward Countryman shows, instead, why the very identity of "American" - forged by all these people - is what matters. This is a scintillating analysis of what becoming American means in historical terms. Edward Countryman offers not one perspective of American history (and thus one identity) but all the perspectives that have contributed to our sense of nationality.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809025930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
In recent decades it has become fashionable to maintain that the experience of various American ethnic groups - whether African, Indian, or European - is the most significant. In this important social history, the noted scholar Edward Countryman shows, instead, why the very identity of "American" - forged by all these people - is what matters. This is a scintillating analysis of what becoming American means in historical terms. Edward Countryman offers not one perspective of American history (and thus one identity) but all the perspectives that have contributed to our sense of nationality.
United States Code
Conditional Citizens
Author: Laila Lalami
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525436049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A New York Times Editors' Choice • Finalist for the California Book Award • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, Los Angeles Times In this brilliantly argued and deeply personal work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S.citizen, using her own story as a starting point for an exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history, politics, and literature, she elucidates how accidents of birth—such as national origin, race, and gender—that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today, poignantly illustrating how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation. Weaving together her experiences with an examination of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture, Lalami illuminates how conditional citizens are all those whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525436049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A New York Times Editors' Choice • Finalist for the California Book Award • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, Los Angeles Times In this brilliantly argued and deeply personal work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S.citizen, using her own story as a starting point for an exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history, politics, and literature, she elucidates how accidents of birth—such as national origin, race, and gender—that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today, poignantly illustrating how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation. Weaving together her experiences with an examination of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture, Lalami illuminates how conditional citizens are all those whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.
Belonging to America
Author: Kenneth L. Karst
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300050288
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The notion of equality in the American system is explored through individual discussions of race, sex, religion, ethnic background asking the question who belongs?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300050288
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The notion of equality in the American system is explored through individual discussions of race, sex, religion, ethnic background asking the question who belongs?
The American Diplomatic Code Embracing a Collection of Treaties and Conventions Between the United States and Foreign Powers: from 1778 to 1834
Author: Jonathan Elliot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A compilation of official U.S. treaties in chronological order
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A compilation of official U.S. treaties in chronological order
Revised Statutes of the United States Relating to the District of Columbia and Post Roads
The American Diplomatic Code
Author: Jonathan Elliot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
"Embracing a collection of treaties and conventions between the United States and foreign powers from 1778 to 1834 ; also, a concise diplomatic manual containing a summary of the law of nations from the works of Wicquefort, Martens, Kent, Vattel, Ward, Story, etc."--T.p.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
"Embracing a collection of treaties and conventions between the United States and foreign powers from 1778 to 1834 ; also, a concise diplomatic manual containing a summary of the law of nations from the works of Wicquefort, Martens, Kent, Vattel, Ward, Story, etc."--T.p.