American niceness: a cultural history
Auteur :
Bramen, Carrie Tirado
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674976498
Date de publication :
14 août 2017
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
The cliché of the Ugly American—loud, vulgar, materialistic, chauvinistic—still expresses what people around the world dislike about their Yankee counterparts. Carrie Tirado Bramen recovers the history of a different national archetype—the nice American—which has been central to ideas of American identity since the nineteenth century.