...This chapter examines Counterpoint Press's marketing for Jarrettsville, focusing on how it increased awareness for Cornelia Nixon's novel at BookExpo America (BEA). It first provides an overview of BEA, a trade conference held in May or early June each year for publishers...

...This chapter examines the institutionalization of Sino-American collaboration through the China Institute in America. Meng Zhi (1901–1990) directed this organization for thirty-seven years and helped the Chinese government gain greater influence over the selection and training of Chinese students...

..., in particular those of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers. It explains how the “Voice of America” (VOA), the official radio and television service of the U.S. federal government, became “the nation's ideological arm of anti-communism,” while the minds of supposedly free-thinking citizens at home were also...

... with social and political life, as industrialization—one of the principal solutions for Latin America's development—has led to some feelings of disenchantment. It becomes necessary here to have a clear-eyed view of what “late-late” industrializing is; instead of exhaustion, this chapter posits that Latin...

... communicated with his acolyte at any great length or with any immediacy. As Kikuchi understood, his and Adamic's commonality had at least two sides: their visions and hopes for America coincided, and the two men's lives were similar versions of the immigrant's tale. Adamic Louis Adamic Stella Common Ground...

... political desires. He insisted that dreams were both the prerogative and the privilege of the engaged citizen and social dreaming was a vice not a virtue, a danger not a duty. It also discusses some of the most popular historical narratives deployed by unionists to ground the claims about Anglo-America...

...This concluding chapter steers a different course, reflecting on some of the ways that time and history have underpinned visions of Anglo-America. It outlines a discourse of racial union which was usually predicated on a specific account of both space and historical temporality. The chosen people...

... States, there was a growing and increasingly compassionately expressed knowledge about what was happening to native peoples. Indians in North America, however numerous they might appear to those who still saw them as formidable military allies or opponents, were becoming increasingly vulnerable: not just...

...This chapter discusses the parallels that could be drawn between the American frontier and various frontiers in the British Empire, together with the apparent lessons that might be taken on board from America's treatment of her native peoples. To be sure, the romance of the American frontier played...

...This chapter begins by examining the US position on human rights in Saudi Arabia, focusing on the death of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The case highlights the politics of shaming between geostrategic partners; in this case, America's reluctance to alienate...

... that wealth and birth—and not talent and virtue—would enjoy the preponderance of power in republican America. birth formal legal privileges goods of fortune hereditary power legal formal privileges Massachusetts power influence of elites privileges legal formal titles and dignities wealth abilities...

...This chapter first sets out the book's purpose, which is to analyze the process through which blackness became legitimated as a category of political contestation in the eyes of the state and other powerful political actors in Latin America, specifically Colombia and Brazil. The author does...

... Front symbolic power Gómez Laureano López de Mesa Luis Wade Peter Sanders James Vargas Pedro Fermín de Chocó Colombia Restrepo Eduardo Appelbaum Nancy P Green John Chavez Margarita samba dance Zambrano Marta black movements Latin America Colombia Brazil black rights mestizaje...

... S Brazil Africa Exchange Society Césaire Aimé Davis Angela Carmichael Stokely Ecuador Miranda Dionicio Panama Pereira Amilcar Pinheiro Ruth Uruguay apartheid South Africa Scott James South Africa affirmative action policies global political fields Latin America Colombia Brazil...

... to the Ku Klux Klan, who believed that Jews, Catholics, and blacks threatened to subvert the America to which they had become accustomed, so too is this the case with the Tea Party and Obama. To the Tea Party supporters, Obama represents a threat to the America they have come to know, in which American...

... experiences. America ballet Brissot Jacques Pierre Cattaneo Carlo civilization Condorcet Marie Jean Antoine Nicholas de Caritat Crèvecoeur Hector Saint Jean de Darnton Robert de Certeau Michel Enlightenment La Hontan Louis Armand de opera Rousseau Jean Jacques Straet Jan van der Vespucci Amerigo...

...This chapter examines early Italian writings on the history of the American War of Independence, including Carlo Botta's History of the War of Independence of the United States of America (1809), Carlo Giuseppe Londonio's three-volume Storia delle colonie inglesi...

...This chapter examines how protagonists of the Italian revolutions of 1848, including Giuseppe Montanelli and Carlo Cattaneo, engaged with American political institutions by looking at the cases of Lombardy, Tuscany, and Sicily. Before discussing the role played by the United States of America...

... central to this process, especially the Bank of North America in Philadelphia, set up in 1781. When the bank came under attack from Pennsylvania's rural egalitarian movement, gentlemen were again put on the defensive. Capitalist economic development seemed to be incompatible with democratic power...

...This chapter investigates how patterns of “Machiavellian” thought became operative in England, and at a later period in colonial and revolutionary America. Moreover, the chapter tackles the problem of England, in which there occurred in that culture nothing like the relatively simple options...