Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism

by David W. Noble

Book Overview

A trenchant examination of epic shifts in American thought by a major scholar in the field.

In the 1940s, American thought experienced a cataclysmic paradigm shift. Before then, national ideology was shaped by American exceptionalism and bourgeois nationalism: elites saw themselves as the children of a homogeneous nation standing outside the history and culture of the Old World. This view repressed the cultures of those who...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816640815
• ISBN13: 9780816640812
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"