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 | 1816: America Rising ISBN: 9780813150154 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States -- History -- 1809–1817; United States -- Politics and government -- 1809–1817; United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Influence; Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century; National characteristics American; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A Cultural History of Cuba during the U.S. Occupation, 1898-1902 ISBN: 9781469603131 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: National characteristics Cuban; Cuba -- History -- 1899-1906; Cuba -- Civilization -- American influences; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Against Self-Reliance: The Arts of Dependence in the Early United States ISBN: 9780812291162 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism; United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865; National characteristics American -- History -- 18th century; National characteristics American -- History -- 19th century; Women -- Education -- Unit; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Ambition, A History ISBN: 9780300189841 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States -- Civilization -- To 1783; Ambition -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; Ambition -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; National characteristics American -- History; Christianity and culture -- United States -- Histor; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative ISBN: 9781587293023 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American fiction -- History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States; Horror tales American -- History and criticism; National characteristics American in literature; Psychological fiction American -- History and criticism; Women an; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | American Metempsychosis: Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry ISBN: 9780823242375 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature; National characteristics American in literature; Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803–1882 -- Criticism and interpretation; Whitman Walt 1819–1892 -- Cri; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal ISBN: 9781469602332 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: National characteristics American; United States -- Politics and government; United States -- Foreign relations; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors ISBN: 9780674040458 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: National characteristics American; Imperialism -- History; Imperialism -- Case studies; United States -- Foreign relations -- 19th century; United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America ISBN: 9780816681754 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Sea stories American -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Seafaring life in literature; National characteristics American in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Beyond Windrush ISBN: 9781628464801 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Caribbean & Latin American.; HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American.; National characteristics Caribbean in literature.; Caribbean literature (English); West Indian literature (Eng; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America ISBN: 9780814786536 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Character in literature; Characters and characteristics in literature; National characteristics American in literature; Character -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19h century; ; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Building an American Empire ISBN: 9781400885350 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: HISTORY / North America.; HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism.; Imperialism; National characteristics Ame; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Challenges of Diversity: Essays on America ISBN: 9780813589350 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: National characteristics American in literature; American literature -- History and criticism; Multiculturalism in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Race in literature; Immigrants in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness ISBN: 9780816683543 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Advertising -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Consumers -- United States -- History; United States -- Popular culture; National characteristics American -- History; Fashion -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Cold War Games ISBN: 9780252098451 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: SPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics.; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.; National characteristics American; Propaganda Anti-communist; Cold War; Sports; Sports and state; Sports; Olympics; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Colonizing the Past: Mythmaking and Pre-Columbian Whites in Nineteenth-Century American Writing ISBN: 9780813943886 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Virginia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Imperialism in literature; National characteristics American in literature; Whites in literature; Colonies in literature; Mythology in literature; America -- In literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front ISBN: 9781469623184 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War 1861–1865 -- Social aspects; National characteristics American -- History -- 19th century; Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Patriotism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Northeaster; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Disaster Writing: The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe in Latin America ISBN: 9780813932033 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Virginia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Latin American literature -- History and criticism; Disasters in literature; Catastrophes (Geology) in literature; Literature and society -- Latin America; National characteristics in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Dislocating Race and Nation ISBN: 9781469605654 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / The University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Black nationalism in literature.; Race relations in literature.; Literature and society; American literature; Nationalism and literature; Literature and history; National characteristics American in literature.; American literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
| Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism ISBN: 9781469605654 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; National characteristics American in literature; Literature and history -- United States -- History; Nationalism and literature -- United States -- History; American literature -- 18th centur; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism ISBN: 9780813928180 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Virginia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783–1865; Europe -- History -- 1848–1849; Revolutions -- Europe -- History -- 19th century; National characteristics American; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Early Spanish American Narrative ISBN: 9780292797451 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Texas Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Spanish American fiction -- History and criticism; Literature and history -- Latin America; National characteristics Latin American in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
| Early Spanish American Narrative ISBN: 9780292797451 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Texas Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: National characteristics Latin American in literature.; Literature and history; Spanish American fiction; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Ecuador and the United States: Useful Strangers ISBN: 9780820337265 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- Ecuador; Ecuador -- Foreign relations -- United States; Balance of power -- History; United States -- Relations -- Ecuador; Ecuador -- Relations -- United States; National characteristics American; National character; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Family Trees ISBN: 9780674076341 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Genealogy -- United States -- History; Genealogy -- Social aspects -- United States; National characteristics American; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | GLOBAL DAWN: The Cultural Foundation of American Internationalism, 1865–1890 ISBN: 9780674054370 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- 1865–1898; Internationalism -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Civilization -- 1865–1918; National characteristics American -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th cen; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790-1861 ISBN: 9780812209839 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Gothic fiction (Literary genre) American -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Individualism in literature; Enlightenment -- Influence; National characteristics American in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Heartless Immensity ISBN: 9780472025763 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Michigan Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Literature and history; Imperialism; Geography in literature.; Boundaries in literature.; Culture conflict in literature.; National characteristics American in literature.; Imperialism in literature.; American literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy ISBN: 9780300145786 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Western films -- History and criticism; National characteristics American in motion pictures; Politics in motion pictures; Hawks Howard 1896–1977 -- Criticism and interpretation; Ford John 1894–1973 -- Criticism and interpretation; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Honor Bound: Race and Shame in America ISBN: 9780813553313 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States -- Race relations -- History; Racism -- United States -- History; National characteristics American -- History; Political culture -- United States -- History; Shame -- United States; Honor -- United States; Social values -- United States; R; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Identity and the Failure of America: From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror ISBN: 9780816656691 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: National characteristics American; Nationalism -- United States -- History; Group identity -- United States -- History; Allegiance -- United States -- History; Failure (Psychology) -- United States -- History; Social justice -- United States -- History; ; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Imitation Nation: Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum US Literature ISBN: 9780813940656 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Virginia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Race in literature; Minorities in literature; National characteristics American in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Imperial Affects ISBN: 9780813583051 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.; Imperialism in motion pictures.; Violence in motion pictures.; Melodrama in motion pictures.; National characteristics American in motion pictures.; Western films; ; ■ Detailed Information | |
| Imperial Affects: Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema ISBN: 9780813583051 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Action and adventure films -- United States -- History and criticism; Western films -- United States -- History and criticism; National characteristics American in motion pictures; Melodrama in motion pictures; Violence in motion pictures; Imperialism i; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Independence Hall in American Memory ISBN: 9780812204230 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Independence Hall (Philadelphia Pa.) -- History; Memory -- Social aspects -- United States; Public history -- United States; Historic sites -- Social aspects -- United States; National characteristics American; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Buildings structure; ■ Detailed Information | |
| Independence Hall in American Memory ISBN: 9780812204230 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: National characteristics American.; Historic sites; Public history; Memory; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Internationalism, National Identities, and Study Abroad: France and the United States, 1890–1970 ISBN: 9780804773386 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Stanford University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Foreign study -- France -- History; Foreign study -- United States -- History; Educational exchanges -- France -- History; Educational exchanges -- United States -- History; National characteristics French -- History; National characteristics American -; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature ISBN: 9780816696130 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Intimacy (Psychology) in literature; National characteristics American in literature; Difference (Psychology) in literature; Interpersonal relations in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Just Like Us: The American Struggle to Understand Foreigners ISBN: 9780231550352 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: National characteristics American -- History; Cultural awareness -- United States; Race awareness -- United States -- History; United States -- Race relations -- History; Cultural pluralism -- United States -- History; Globalization -- Social aspects --; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | LatinAsian Cartographies ISBN: 9780813589886 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century.; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American.; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American.; National characteristics ; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Love's Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination ISBN: 9781469603346 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Violence in literature; Empathy in literature; Sentimentalism in literature; National characteristics American in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America ISBN: 9780813551128 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; United States -- History -- Civil War 1861–1865 -- Literature and the war; National characteristics American in literature; Loyalty in literature; Allegiance in literature; Nationalism in li; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Made in America : A Social History of American Culture and Character ISBN: 9780226251455 Platform/Publisher: PQ ebrary / University of Chicago Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a time Subjects: National characteristics American.; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Making Americans: Children's Literature from 1930 to 1960 ISBN: 9781609382216 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Children’s literature American -- History and criticism; National characteristics American in literature; Democracy in literature; Children’s literature -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Children -- Books and reading -- United; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Merit: The History of a Founding Ideal from the American Revolution to the Twenty-First Century ISBN: 9780801467677 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Merit (Ethics) -- Social aspects -- United States; Social values -- United States -- History; National characteristics American -- History; United States -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Mexicans in the Making of America ISBN: 9780674735675 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Mexican Americans -- History; Mexicans -- United States -- History; Immigrants -- United States -- History; United States -- Relations -- Mexico; Mexico -- Relations -- United States; National characteristics American; United States -- Ethnic relations; ; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning ISBN: 9780252050800 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States -- History -- Philosophy; United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy; United States -- History -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; National characteristics American; Nationalism -- United States; Myth -- Political aspects -- United; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction ISBN: 9781612490304 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Purdue University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Setting (Literature); Space and time in literature; National characteristics in literature; Fiction -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | New York and Toronto Novels after Postmodernism: Explorations of the Urban ISBN: 9781571137562 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Boydell & Brewer Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- In literature; Toronto (Ont.) -- In literature; Cities and towns in literature; National characteristics in literature; American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Canadian fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Not in Front of the Children: 'Indecency,' Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth ISBN: 9780813543888 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Censorship -- United States -- History -- 20th century; National characteristics American -- History -- 20th century; Obscenity (Law) -- United States; United States -- Moral conditions -- History -- 20th century; Youth -- United States -- Social conditi; ■ Detailed Information |