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American Niceness : A Cultural History / Carrie Tirado Bramen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) : 11 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674982345
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973 23
LOC classification:
  • HM1161 .B73 2017eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: American Niceness and the Democratic Personality -- 1. Indian Giving and the Dangers of Hospitality -- 2. Southern Niceness and the Slave’s Smile -- 3. The Christology of Niceness -- 4. Feminine Niceness -- 5. The Likable Empire from Plymouth Rock to the Philippines -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX
Summary: The cliché of the Ugly American—loud, vulgar, materialistic, chauvinistic—still expresses what people around the world dislike about their Yankee counterparts. Carrie Tirado Bramen recovers the history of a different national archetype—the nice American—which has been central to ideas of American identity since the nineteenth century.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: American Niceness and the Democratic Personality -- 1. Indian Giving and the Dangers of Hospitality -- 2. Southern Niceness and the Slave’s Smile -- 3. The Christology of Niceness -- 4. Feminine Niceness -- 5. The Likable Empire from Plymouth Rock to the Philippines -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX

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The cliché of the Ugly American—loud, vulgar, materialistic, chauvinistic—still expresses what people around the world dislike about their Yankee counterparts. Carrie Tirado Bramen recovers the history of a different national archetype—the nice American—which has been central to ideas of American identity since the nineteenth century.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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