Books on Exceptionalism:

Title: From Exceptionalism to Imperialism: Culture, Character, and American Foreign Policy

Author(s): Lauren Langman, Meghan A. Burke Volume: 24 Editor(s): Jennifer M. Lehmann, Harry F. Dahms ISBN: 978-0-76231-314-3

eISBN: 978-1-84950-415-7 Citation: Lauren Langman, Meghan A. Burke (2006), From Exceptionalism to

Imperialism: Culture, Character, and American Foreign Policy, in Jennifer M. Lehmann, Harry F. Dahms (ed.) Globalization between the Cold War and Neo-Imperialism (Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Volume 24), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.189-228

DOI: 10.1016/S0278-1204(06)24004-0 (Permanent URL) Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Article type: Chapter Item

Extract: Arthur Schlessinger (1983) suggested that the contradictions and paradoxes of American foreign policy reflected contradictions and paradoxes in the underlying character of the people. We would go further to suggest that the early years of colonial life, much like the early years of a person's life, had major consequences ever since. The intersection of Puritanism, available land, and eventually the rise of a commercial culture would forge a unique trajectory of what would be called “American Exceptionalism”, reflecting an “American character”, which itself is subject to three paradoxes or polarities, individualism vs. community, toughness vs. compassion, and moralism vs. pragmatism. The effect of this legacy and the dialectical aspect of American character were first evident when Winthrop proclaimed the city on the hill as the new Jerusalem. The legacy of that vision is taking place today in Iraq.

Exceptionalism and Its Discontents: Deforming American Political Thought: Ethnicity, Facticity and Genre, by Michael J. Shapiro. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2006. 245 pp. $40.00 (cloth). Why Race Matters in South Africa, by Michael MacDonald. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 245 pp. $47.50 (cloth) Political Theory August 2010 38: 576-585,

The Theo-Political Foundations of American Exceptionalism: A Goal for the "Almost Chosen People" [Paperback] Paul Eidelberg (Author) ISBN-10: 0984760601 ISBN-13: 978-0984760602

The New American Exceptionalism (Critical American Studies) Donald E. Pease (Author) Univ Of Minnesota Press (October 31, 2009)

Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities (Studies in Migration and Diaspora) [Hardcover] Kristin Loftsdottir (Editor), Lars Jensen (Editor) ISBN-10: 1409444813 ISBN-13: 978-1409444817

http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/xx/exception1.htm Trotsky : Internationalism and the theory of exceptionalism

The Validity of Russian Exceptionalism: Assessing Theories of Power and Lordship in the High Middle Ages Ivan Ignatov From: Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Volume 43, 2012 pp. 1-28 | 10.1353/cjm.2012.0026

http://tcs.sagepub.com/content/15/2/137.short Korea and East Asian Exceptionalism William H. Thornton

Globalization, Europeanization, Complexity, and the Future of Scandinavian Exceptionalism Robert R. Geyer http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0491.00228/abstract;jsessionid=8D7F221BD78377955EE2FCF12A650242.d03t02?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction By Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=T4iaDsruU38C&oi=fnd&pg=PP2&dq=theories+of+exceptionalism&ots=6YdXIn_SNU&sig=cIi-kww60TPVNV6OTiXuVsThvxo#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity From 1492 to 1800 Jack Greene UoNCP ISBN-10: 0807846317 ISBN-13: 978-0807846315

Colonizing Agriculture: The Myth of Punjab Exceptionalism (Sage Series in Modern Indian History, 9) Mridula Mukherjee (Author) ISBN-10: 0761934057 ISBN-13: 978-0761934059

How Many Exceptionalisms?: Explorations in Comparative Macroanalysis (Politics History & Social Chan) Aristide Zolberg ISBN-10: 1592138322 ISBN-13: 978-1592138326

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http://www.amazon.com/The-Exceptionalist-State-Exception-Rethinking/dp/0801898498

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http://www.amazon.com/The-Rhetoric-American-Exceptionalism-Critical/dp/0786459700/ref=sr_1_44?ie=UTF8&qid=1350788864&sr=8-44&keywords=exceptionalism

http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Southern-Exceptionalism-ebook/dp/B002JCSCN4/ref=sr_1_45?ie=UTF8&qid=1350788864&sr=8-45&keywords=exceptionalism

http://www.amazon.com/The-Roots-American-Exceptionalism-Institutions/dp/1403961964/ref=sr_1_47?ie=UTF8&qid=1350788864&sr=8-47&keywords=exceptionalism

http://www.amazon.com/Debating-Cuban-Exceptionalism-Studies-Americas/dp/1403980756/ref=sr_1_70?ie=UTF8&qid=1350789782&sr=8-70&keywords=exceptionalism

http://www.amazon.com/Establishing-Exceptionalism-Historiography-Expanding-1450-1800/dp/0860785041/ref=sr_1_75?ie=UTF8&qid=1350789782&sr=8-75&keywords=exceptionalism

http://www.amazon.com/Jordanian-Exceptionalism-Comparative-State-Religion-Relationships/dp/0312238436/ref=sr_1_77?ie=UTF8&qid=1350789782&sr=8-77&keywords=exceptionalism

http://www.amazon.com/The-Greek-Civil-War-Exceptionalism/dp/0754641317/ref=sr_1_81?ie=UTF8&qid=1350789823&sr=8-81&keywords=exceptionalism

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