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National characteristics, American --- American national characteristics --- United States --- Civilization.

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American society may be hostile to the thought of ideologies, but it possesses a sophisticated but little understood ability to engage in deep conflicts over political ideas, while at the same time reducing adversarial positions to legitimate derivatives of American history and development. The study asks how this occurs; how the sources, traditions and usages of core ideas and their derivative compounds animate political discourse and structure the basis of political conflict; andhow it is possible to sustain a high incidence of competitive value-laden argument and principled political confli

Political culture --- National characteristics, American. --- United States --- Politics and government. --- American national characteristics --- Government --- History, Political

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There is much heated rhetoric about the widening gulf between Europe and America. According to the American right, Europeans are lazy, defeatist and irreligious, while Americans are entrepreneurial, optimistic, and pious. And according to Europeans, America is harsh, dominated by the market, crime-ridden, violent, and sharp-elbowed. But are the US and Europe so different? Peter Baldwin, one of the world's leading historians of comparative social policy, thinks not, and in this bracingly argued but remarkably informed polemic, he lays out how similar the two continents really are.

National characteristics, European. --- National characteristics, American. --- American national characteristics --- European national characteristics --- Europe --- United States --- Relations

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Between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, an influx of Europeans, Asians, and Arabic speakers indelibly changed the face of Latin America. While many studies of this period focus on why the immigrants came to the region, this volume addresses how the newcomers helped construct national identities in the Caribbean, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. In these essays, some of the most respected scholars of migration history examine the range of responses--some welcoming, some xenophobic--to the newcomers. They also look at the lasting effects that Jewish, German, Chinese, Italian, and

Nationalism --- National characteristics, Latin American. --- Latin American national characteristics --- Latin America --- Emigration and immigration.

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American national characteristics --- Amerikaans volkskarakter --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines --- National characteristics [American ] --- Volkskarakter [Amerikaans ] --- United States --- Social conditions --- 20th century --- Minorities