From Settler Colony to Global Hegemon: Integrating the Exceptionalist Narrative of the American Experience into World History.

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  • Author(s): Adas, Michael
  • Source:
    American Historical Review. Dec2001, Vol. 106 Issue 5, p1692. 29p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      NATIONAL character; CULTURE; CULTURAL policy
    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED States
    • Abstract:
      Addresses the tension between Americans' thinking about themselves and their relationship to other people and cultures. What reinforced exceptionalist formulations of the American experience and national identity on the part of historians and politicians alike; What gave intensity to the longstanding contradictions between exceptionalism in its varying guises and visions of America as a model for the rest of humankind.