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Was sind die Ursachen des deutschen Sonderwegs? Auf diese Frage gibt es zahlreiche Antworten, die als konkurrierende Deutungen nebeneinander Geltung beanspruchen. Aus erkenntnistheoretischem Interesse erforscht die vorliegende Arbeit die gesellschaftliche Bedingtheit dieser konkurrierenden Deutungen des deutschen Sonderwegs. Dabei wird angenommen, dass Geschichtsschreibung immer auch einen Zweck verfolgt. Unter dieser Annahme versucht die Arbeit den Zusammenhang zwischen der Geschichtsschreibung des deutschen Sonderwegs und den Ansichten der Autoren darüber, was Geschichte leisten kann, aufzuz

Exceptionalism --- National characteristics --- Germany --- Historiography.

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A fresh, original history of America's national narratives, told through the loss, recovery, and rise of one influential Puritan sermon from 1630 to the present day In this illuminating book, Abram Van Engen shows how the phrase "City on a Hill," from a 1630 sermon by Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop, shaped the story of American exceptionalism in the twentieth century. By tracing the history of Winthrop's speech, its changing status throughout time, and its use in modern politics, Van Engen asks us to reevaluate our national narratives. He tells the story of curators, librarians, collectors, archivists, antiquarians, and often anonymous figures who emphasized the role of the Pilgrims and Puritans in American history, paving the way for the saving and sanctifying of a single sermon. This sermon's rags-to-riches rise reveals the way national stories take shape and shows us how those tales continue to influence competing visions of the country-the many different meanings of America that emerge from its literary past.

Christianity and politics --- Exceptionalism --- History. --- Winthrop, John,

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"The United States incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world, at rates nearly ten times higher than other liberal democracies. Indeed, while the U.S. is home to 5 percent of the world's population, it contains nearly 25 percent of its prisoners. But the extent of American cruelty goes beyond simply locking people up. At every stage of the criminal justice process - plea bargaining, sentencing, prison conditions, rehabilitation, parole, and societal reentry - the U.S. is harsher and more punitive than other comparable countries. In Unusually Cruel, Marc Morjé Howard argues that the American criminal justice and prison systems are exceptional - in a truly shameful way. Although other scholars have focused on the internal dynamics that have produced this massive carceral system, Howard provides the first sustained comparative analysis that shows just how far the U.S. lies outside the norm of established democracies. And, by highlighting how other countries successfully apply less punitive and more productive policies, he provides plausible solutions to addressing America's criminal justice quagmire."

Criminal justice, Administration of --- Prisons --- Corrections --- Correctional law --- Exceptionalism

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Aesthetics. --- Exceptionalism. --- National characteristics --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Art --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Psychology --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Aesthetics --- Exceptionalism --- Art criticism

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These essays dismantle clich�es about regional distinctiveness and rewrite modern American history through a national focus on topics such as the civil rights movement, conservative backlash and liberal reform, the rise of the Religious Right, the emergence of the Sunbelt, and the increasing diversity of the suburbs.

Regionalism --- African Americans --- Group identity --- Exceptionalism --- Historiography. --- Segregation --- Southern States --- United States --- Social conditions. --- Race relations