The fractious nation? : unity and division in contemporary American life

The fractious nation? : unity and division in contemporary American life / edited by Jonathan Rieder ; Stephen Steinlight, associate editor.

What are we to make of the speed with which the new climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a backdrop of the much-touted divisiveness of American life? In truth, The Fractious Nation? makes clear, the contrast of the time of divisiveness before an...

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Other Authors: Rieder, Jonathan, Steinlight, Stephen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Since 1980
National characteristics, American.
Political culture > United States.
Citizenship > Social aspects > United States.
Social conflict > United States.
Cultural pluralism > United States.
HISTORY.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Citizenship > Social aspects
Cultural pluralism
Moral conditions
National characteristics, American
Political culture
Politics and government
Social conditions
Social conflict
United States > Politics and government > 1989-
United States > Moral conditions.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-
United States
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Summary:What are we to make of the speed with which the new climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a backdrop of the much-touted divisiveness of American life? In truth, The Fractious Nation? makes clear, the contrast of the time of divisiveness before and the time of unity that followed is much too stark, indeed.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 295 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520936911
0520936914
1417525584
9781417525584
9780520220430
0520220439
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