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This America: The Case for the Nation (Hardcover)
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This America: The Case for the Nation (Hardcover)
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From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling historian, Jill
Lepore, comes a bold new history of nationalism, and a plan for
hope in the twenty-first century. With dangerous forms of
nationalism on the rise, at a time of much despair over the future
of liberal democracy, Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill
Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation - and repudiates
nationalism by explaining its long history. In part a primer on the
origins of nations, The Case for the Nation explains how much of
American history has been a battle between nationalism, liberal and
illiberal, all the way down to the nation's latest, bitter
struggles over immigration. Defending liberalism, as The Case for
the Nation demonstrates, requires making the case for the nation.
But American historians largely abandoned that defense in the 1960s
when they stopped writing national history. By the 1980s they'd
stopped studying the nation-state altogether and embraced globalism
instead. When serious historians abandon the study of the nation,
nationalism doesn't die. Instead, it eats liberalism. But
liberalism is still in there, and The Case for the Nation is an
attempt to pull it out. A manifesto for a better world, and a call
for a new engagement with national narratives, The Case for the
Nation reclaims the future by acknowledging the past.
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