American Niceness : A Cultural History /
Bramen, Carrie Tirado
American Niceness : A Cultural History / Carrie Tirado Bramen. - 1 online resource (384 p.) : 11 halftones
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
9780674982345
10.4159/9780674982345 doi
Friendship--History.--United States
Kindness--History.--United States
National characteristics, American--Public opinion--History.
Visitors, Foreign--Attitudes--History.--United States
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
HM1161 / .B73 2017eb
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American Niceness : A Cultural History / Carrie Tirado Bramen. - 1 online resource (384 p.) : 11 halftones
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
9780674982345
10.4159/9780674982345 doi
Friendship--History.--United States
Kindness--History.--United States
National characteristics, American--Public opinion--History.
Visitors, Foreign--Attitudes--History.--United States
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
HM1161 / .B73 2017eb
973