...This chapter argues that exceptionalism first became self-consciously articulated as Europeans and Americans grappled with the meaning of the American Civil War; it studies the deployment of the Puritan-derived jeremiad by abolitionists to challenge American exceptionalism, sometimes by condemning...

...Despite the North’s Civil War triumph and its Reconstruction-era liberal exceptionalist platform, exceptionalism’s meaning remained contested. The Statue of Liberty’s opening in 1886 is discussed as a form of monumental exceptionalism tending to align exceptionalism with the state and its political...

...This chapter first asks whether the New Deal could be seen as a fulfillment of or a deviation from American exceptionalism. It shows how a new, reformed liberal version of exceptionalism reflected two key concepts: the American Dream and the American Century. These concepts became important...

..., particularly the labor movement. It thus refutes both notions of American exceptionalism and the historical claim that late twentieth-century social movements were of a fundamentally new kind. The chapter also explores identity politics and other features common to movements throughout the modern period...

... Nations Wahabbism Haidara Chérif Ousmane Madani Fourth Republic of Nigeria Islam’s compatibility with democracy public spheres Islamic exceptionalism public opinion objectification of religion fiqh In a story published in the April 17, 2011, edition of the New York Times...

...The capitalist market embodies and accentuates key elements of modern culture: it endorses human exceptionalism, treats people as autonomous individuals, discounts the future, fragments and commodifies nature’s parts, overlooking ecological interconnections and most life forms; denies human...

... and, above all perhaps, criticized in specially constructed frames. exceptionalism naturalism powers nuclear physics and technology chimerism essentialism Barnes Barry brains Dupré John free will human nature reason blood collectives Goffman Ervin human dignity Scheff Tom Durkheim Emile...

... that the sources of this “American exceptionalism” reside in the interplay between the early achievement of universal (white) manhood suffrage and elite efforts to safeguard property rights. Murrin J M Onuf P S Ross D Tyrrell I American exceptionalism Cross country regressions Gower L C B Lamoreaux N R...

... “habits of truthfulness ” Trump Donald American practical letters correspondence truth conditions treatymaking American Exceptionalism settlement in British America coherence truth conditions kaswentha treatymaking encounter in British America For scholars of North American colonial literature...

... popular support for revolutionary legal structures law on ground Pennsylvania American Revolution New York Alexander Hamilton Phocion Russel Kirk American exceptionalism As soon as the war ended, some of New York’s leaders tried to convince ordinary people that their revolution had been more fair...

.... Lorca was particularly attractive to poets seeking to define a new variety of American cultural nationalism. He arrived on the scene as an alien figure, strongly identified with a quite different brand of national exceptionalism—that of Spain itself. Far from being an obstacle, however, Lorca's...

... traditions included the major premise that animals are supposed to be here. This chapter then introduces and discusses the political exclusion of animals. It discusses this topic under the defined critical frameworks for reading (zootopian constitution, human negative exceptionalism, zoographic critique...

...This chapter explores the dominant moral frames embraced in the United States and similar cultures, frames that recognize moral value in humans alone among species (human exceptionalism), that understand humans as autonomous individuals, and that center on liberty, equality, and economic expansion...

... to several standard understandings of America: Hartzian liberalism; the frontier thesis; American exceptionalism; civic republicanism; communitarianism and the minimalist thesis of Judith Shklar. citizenship alien ownership and citizenship Socrates Plato Hartz Louis liberal tradition Hawthorne Nathaniel...

... diversity inclusiveness unity Murphy Frank respect Stone Harlan Elk Grove Unified School District v Newdow Jackson Robert West Virginia State Board of Education v Barnette ritual civil religion Thanksgiving Pledge of Allegiance exceptionalism American flag national heroes In October 1935...

... diversification, vitality and endangerment throughout Latin America. Rejecting Creole Exceptionalism (i.e., the dogma that Creole languages are exceptional languages on either developmental or structural grounds), I compare Haitian Creole with its counterparts in continental Latin America, particularly Amerindian...

...American studies supplied an interdisciplinary methodology for studying the literature, history, politics, and territorial geography of the United States. The discourse of American exceptionalism monitored how American culture was studied, and it regulated these processes of translatability...

... pushed audiences to realize that conservation success required significant if not radical changes in modern culture. After distilling and probing Leopold’s key messages, this chapter situates Leopold’s stances in modern philosophy. Leopold challenged presumptions about human exceptionalism and liberal...