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American Apotheosis: Ceramics And The Production Of National Identity In Post-Revolutionary New York City, Diane F. George
American Apotheosis: Ceramics And The Production Of National Identity In Post-Revolutionary New York City, Diane F. George
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This study begins in the present with questions about the genealogy of American national identities in a time when they are fraught, exclusionary, and often dangerous. It examines ceramic tablewares and teawares from the post-Revolutionary War period in New York City, seeking to uncover the identities that were formed by the middle- and upper-class merchants, businessmen, and their families who may have used the wares. The theoretical framework is the concept of identity and the belief that people use material culture in social arenas in active and complex ways to produce, reproduce, announce, challenge, and change who they or the …
From Moral Panic To Permanent War: Rhetoric And The Road To Invading Iraq, Kai Philippe
From Moral Panic To Permanent War: Rhetoric And The Road To Invading Iraq, Kai Philippe
Honors Papers
This thesis seeks to understand the conditions in the United States post-9/11 that enabled the Bush administration to pursue a wide-ranging and all-encompassing “War on Terror,” with substantial support from the general public. I am principally focused on two significant facets of the War on Terror: the invasion of Iraq and the establishment of a permanent security state (and the interrelated creation of a new state of exception). I ask why the George W. Bush administration was so successful in generating support for both the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and for policies that violated fundamental civil liberties; I argue …
The American Duality: Exceptionalism Or Exemptionalism?, Courtney Muniz
The American Duality: Exceptionalism Or Exemptionalism?, Courtney Muniz
Communication Studies
Discusses how the ethnocentric tendencies found within American exceptionalism translate into U.S. foreign policy.
Christian Progress And American Myth: A Deep Cultural Analysis Of Spatiality And Exceptionalism In Struggles Over American Indian Lands, Bradley J. Klein
Christian Progress And American Myth: A Deep Cultural Analysis Of Spatiality And Exceptionalism In Struggles Over American Indian Lands, Bradley J. Klein
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Although typically characterized in politico-economic, social, and environmental terms, land struggles involving American Indian communities can be more accurately and valuably characterized as deep culture conflicts over the problem of space. As scholars like Vine Deloria Jr. and Tink Tinker contend, a significant distinction can be noted between the traditional American Indian and White Western approaches to this problem regarding how human communities should relate to particular spatial locations. In short, while Indian peoples tend to situate their identities relative to clearly defined places or lands, individuals of European descent are inclined to subordinate spatial relations to temporal concerns. Considering …
Foreign Policy Rhetoric For The Post-Cold War World: Bill Clinton And America's Foreign Policy Vocabulary, Jason Allen Edwards
Foreign Policy Rhetoric For The Post-Cold War World: Bill Clinton And America's Foreign Policy Vocabulary, Jason Allen Edwards
Communication Dissertations
This project examines the foreign policy rhetoric of Bill Clinton in the post-Cold War world. My reading of Clinton’s rhetoric reveals that a change/order binary underwrote his oratory. Clinton defined change as being the underlying guidepost of the post-Cold War international setting. Order was defined through how he could guide, shape, direct, and manage American foreign policy in a sea of change, represented through his use of what I call America’s foreign policy vocabulary. This lexicon is based on three rhetorical components—the definitions of America’s role in the world, identification of the enemies we face, and the grand strategy we …