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American Imaginaries

Nations, Societies and Capitalism in the Many Americas
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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. As well as taking 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. Ideal for scholars and students of history, Atlantic Studies, comparative and historical sociology and social theory, the book engages with debates about modernity, civilizations, historical constellations, and social imaginaries.
Jeremy C.A. Smith is associate professor and Deputy Head of the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Federation University Australia and is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Victoria, Canada. He has published in European Journal of Social Theory, Critical Horizons, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Atlantic Studies and Political Power and Social Theory and is the author of Europe and the Americas: State Formation, Capitalism and Civilizations in Atlantic Modernity (2006) and Debating Civilizations: Interrogating Civilizational Analysis in a Global Age (2017). He is also a Coordinating Editor of the international journal Social Imaginaries.
Acknowledgments Part One - American Imaginaries: Dimensions of National Societies Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Making Americans: Migration and Cities as Metropolitan Imaginaries Chapter 3: Creating Capitalism: National States and Regional Patterns Chapter 4: Political Imaginaries, Political Traditions: Ideologies and State Formation Part Two: Transnational Regions of the Diverse Americas Chapter 5: The Undeclared Empire? US Power in the Western Hemisphere and Beyond Chapter 6: A Region of Regions: Provincializing the Americas Chapter 7: First Nations Movements and Indigenous Modernities Chapter 8: Conclusion: Civilizational Analysis, Multiple Imaginaries, and the Diverse Americas References Notes Index About the Author
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