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This America: The Case for the Nation (Paperback)
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This America: The Case for the Nation (Paperback)
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'Jill Lepore is that rare combination in modern life of intellect,
originality and style' Amanda Foreman 'A thoughtful and passionate
defence of her vision of American patriotism' New York Times 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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