TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bramen,Carrie Tirado
TI  - American Niceness: A Cultural History 
SN  - 9780674982345
AV  - HM1161 .B73 2017eb
U1  - 973 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Friendship
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Kindness
KW  - National characteristics, American
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Visitors, Foreign
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674982345
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674982345
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