American Imaginaries: Nations, Societies and Capitalism in the Many Americas

Jeremy C.A. Smith

doi:10.5771/9781786609694

Summary

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.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-78660-967-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-78660-969-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 227
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. 1 Introduction No access
2. 2 Making Americans: Migration and Cities as Metropolitan Imaginaries No access
3. 3 Creating Capitalism: National States and Regional Patterns No access
4. 4 Political Imaginaries, Political Traditions: Ideologies and State Formation No access
1. 5 The Undeclared Empire?: US Power in the Western Hemisphere and Beyond No access
2. 6 A Region of Regions: Provincializing the Americas No access
3. 7 First Nations Movements and Indigenous Modernities No access
4. 8 Conclusion: Civilizational Analysis, Multiple Imaginaries, and the Diverse Americas No access
Bibliography No access Pages 203 - 220
Index No access Pages 221 - 226
About the Author No access Pages 227 - 227