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ISBN-10 :  0415474299 

ISBN-13 :  9780415474290

Author:   Brendon O’Connor 

This book argues against the tendency to see America as the worst or best nation and instead presents a case for seeing anti-Americanism as a counterproductive prejudice. There are many reasons to criticise American policies, politics and even society, but a crucial distinction must be drawn between criticism and prejudice. Charting the development and adaptation of this anti-American tradition, O’Connor maintains that it is important to contextualise it within the particularities of the American experience and the global reach of the United States’ influence and power. He argues for a move away from stereotypes and caricatures towards more specific and profitable discussions about American actions and policies. Offering precise and useful ways of understanding anti-Americanism and American exceptionalism that place the terms in their relevant political contexts, this volume is a useful and engaging resource for those researching or studying American politics and ideology, foreign policy, American culture and international relations.

Anti Americanism and American Exceptionalism Prejudice and Pride about the USA 1st Table of contents:

1. What is anti-Americanism? The last respectable prejudice?
The two elephants in the room
Measuring a politically contested term
Anti-Americanism in popular and scholarly debate
What is anti-Americanism? Five conceptions
A more durable definition
Why is a more precise conversation about anti-Americanism important?
Notes
2. A history of anti-Americanism
A history of the literature
Early anti-Americanism
Culture: America has no class
Political/military: Too powerful and too naïve
Economic Imperialism: The American mosquito
Anti-American terrorism
Conclusion
Notes
3. Anti-Americanism vs. criticism: Reporting on the 2003 Iraq War and the Korean War
Two case studies in anti-Americanism
Anti-Americanism as polemic name-calling
Wilfred Burchett and anti-Americanism
Conclusion
Notes
4. Anti-Americanism or anti-Bush?
A Christian cowboy
Cementing stereotypes
What’s Wrong with a Laugh?
The data on Bush
The 2004 elections
Do Americans care?
Operation Clark County
Conclusion
Notes
5. What is American exceptionalism?: A key component of American nationalist ideology
The origins of the term American exceptionalism
Seymour Martin Lipset and comparative American exceptionalism
From the founders to the 2012 election
Notes
6. Don’t know much about geography: American insularity, decline, and anti-Americanism
Popular discussions of American ignorance
Harder evidence
The academic literature on ignorance
Ignorance or anti-Americanism?
Notes
7. The Trump factor: The ugly American, popular culture, and populism
Trump as the ugly American
An ugly world: popular culture and populism
American exceptionalism in the age of Trump
In Summation

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