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The great nation of futurity : the discourse and temporality of American national identity / Patricia L. Dunmire.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunmire, Patricia L., author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies sociolinguistic series.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies sociolinguistic series
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, American.
- Nationalism--United States--History--20th century.
- Nationalism.
- Exceptionalism--United States.
- Exceptionalism.
- Future, The.
- United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
- United States.
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- 'The Great Nation of Futurity' examines the rhetoric of American exceptionalism - the idea that the United States is an exemplary nation with a unique, divinely sanctioned role - within Cold War foreign policy discourse. Taking a discourse analytic approach, Patricia L. Dunmire focuses specifically on how images and visions of the future within exceptionalist rhetoric are used to promote and endorse the nation's foreign policy during the Cold War.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Futurity, National Identity, and American Foreign Policy Discourse
- 2. "America's Most Precious Natural Resource": The Temporality of American Exceptionalism
- 3. "Vistas to the Future": Shaping the Postwar Future
- 4. "New Vistas of Opportunity": Modernizing the Other
- 5. "Alerting America": The Committee on the Present Danger and the Re-Securitization of the Soviet Union
- 6. From the American Century to the End of History: An American Future of Democratic Peace
- 7. The Future of American Exceptionalism
- Notes
- Appendix: Data Bibliography
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 27, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-765826-1
- 0-19-765824-5
- 0-19-765825-3
- OCLC:
- 1374431426
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