Description
Book SynopsisAmerican Imaginaries examines the diverse societies and nations of the Western hemisphere as they have emerged across the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring cities, capitalism, nations, nationalism, and politics from both comparative and transnational perspectives, the book develops a unique approach based on the paradigms of civilizational analysis and social imaginaries. As well as taking a fresh perspective on the Americas, American Imaginaries gives proper analysis of multinational and intra-national regions and, crucially, the civilizational force of resurgent indigenous nations.
Ideal for scholars and students of history, Atlantic Studies, comparative and historical sociology and social theory, the book engages with debates about modernity, civilizations, historical constellations, and social imaginaries.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Part One - American Imaginaries: Dimensions of National Societies
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Making Americans: Migration and Cities as Metropolitan Imaginaries
Chapter 3: Creating Capitalism: National States and Regional Patterns
Chapter 4: Political Imaginaries, Political Traditions: Ideologies and State Formation
Part Two: Transnational Regions of the Diverse Americas
Chapter 5: The Undeclared Empire? US Power in the Western Hemisphere and Beyond
Chapter 6: A Region of Regions: Provincializing the Americas
Chapter 7: First Nations Movements and Indigenous Modernities
Chapter 8: Conclusion: Civilizational Analysis, Multiple Imaginaries, and the Diverse Americas
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