β Scribed by Jeremy C.A. Smith
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
American Imaginaries examines the diverse societies and nations of the Western hemisphere as they have emerged across the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring cities, capitalism, nations, nationalism, and politics from both comparative and transnational perspectives, the book develops a unique approach based on the paradigms of civilizational analysis and social imaginaries. In addition to providing a fresh perspective on the Americas, American Imaginaries gives proper analysis of multinational and intra-national regions and, crucially, the civilizational force of resurgent indigenous nations. The book also covers regions often underemphasized in histories of the hemisphere, such as Central America and the Caribbean.
The book will appeal to scholars and students of history, Atlantic studies, comparative and historical sociology, and social theory. In addition, it will gain audiences amongst academics and graduate students who follow debates about modernity, civilizations, historical constellations, and social imaginaries.
American Imaginaries
Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I: American Imaginaries: Dimensions of National Societies
1 Introduction
2 Making Americans: Migration and Cities as Metropolitan Imaginaries
3 Creating Capitalism: National States and Regional Patterns
4 Political Imaginaries, Political Traditions: Ideologies and State Formation
Part II: Transnational Regions of the Diverse Americas
5 The Undeclared Empire?: US Power in the Western Hemisphere and Beyond
6 A Region of Regions: Provincializing the Americas
7 First Nations Movements and Indigenous Modernities
8 Conclusion: Civilizational Analysis, Multiple Imaginaries, and the Diverse Americas
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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