Jeremy C. A. Smith

American Imaginaries (eBook, ePUB)

Nations, Societies and Capitalism in the Many Americas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

American Imaginaries examines the diverse societies and nations of the Western hemisphere as they have emerged across the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring cities, capitalism, nations, nationalism, and politics from both comparative and transnational perspectives, the book develops a unique approach based on the paradigms of civilizational analysis and social imaginaries. In addition to providing a fresh perspective on the Americas, American Imaginaries gives proper analysis of multinational and intra-national regions and, crucially, the civilizational force of resurgent indigenous nations. The book also covers regions often underemphasized in histories of the hemisphere, such as Central America and the Caribbean. The book will appeal to scholars and students of history, Atlantic studies, comparative and historical sociology, and social theory. In addition, it will gain audiences amongst academics and graduate students who follow debates about modernity, civilizations, historical constellations, and social imaginaries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786609694
• Artikelnr.: 65886740

Autorenporträt

Jeremy C.A. Smith is in the School of Arts at Federation University Australia. Currently Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Social Science, he held the positions of Deputy Head of School (2016-2018), Associate Dean Learning and Teaching (2011-2014) and Deputy Head of School (2007-2011). He has published his research in European Journal of Social Theory, Critical Horizons, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Atlantic Studies and Political Power and Social Theory. He is the author of Europe and the Americas: State Formation, Capitalism and Civilizations in Atlantic Modernity (Brill, 2006) and Debating Civilizations: Interrogating Civilizational Analysis in a Global Age (Manchester University Press, 2017), as well as a co-editor of two other edited collections. He is also a Coordinating Editor of the international journal Social Imaginaries (Zeta Books) and the Social Imaginaries book series (Rowman & Littlefield International). His current research work revolves around civilizational analysis and social imaginaries.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Part One - American Imaginaries: Dimensions of National Societies
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Making Americans: Migration and Cities as Metropolitan
Imaginaries
Chapter 3: Creating Capitalism: National States and Regional Patterns
Chapter 4: Political Imaginaries, Political Traditions: Ideologies and
State Formation
Part Two: Transnational Regions of the Diverse Americas
Chapter 5: The Undeclared Empire? US Power in the Western Hemisphere and
Beyond
Chapter 6: A Region of Regions: Provincializing the Americas
Chapter 7: First Nations Movements and Indigenous Modernities
Chapter 8: Conclusion: Civilizational Analysis, Multiple Imaginaries, and
the Diverse Americas
References
Notes
Index
About the Author