City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present. By Alex Kriegerdoi:10.1093/WHQ/WHAA098John Lauritz LarsonOxford University Press (OUP)
City on a hill : a history of ideas and myths in America City on a hill: A history of ideas and myths in America. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author:Baritz, Loren (b. 1928, d. ---. PUBLISHER: Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.). SERIES TITLE:YEAR: 1980. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN...
As the "city upon a hill," America used to welcome immigrants from all over the world with open arms. But for Chinese scientists and scholars, this has clearly not been the case in recent years. According to available data, nearly 300 Chinese nationals, including more than 70 students with...
"A SHINING CITY ON A HILL": AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AND THE SUPREME COURT'S PRACTICE OF RELYING ON FOREIGN LAW. The article discusses the U.S. exceptionalism and the dependence of the U.S. Supreme Court on foreign law. It mentions that the popular culture in this country overwhelmingly ...
Instead of building a City Upon a Hill, the United States has built a City Upon Theft. Enditem (The author is a commentator on international affairs, writing regularly for Global Times, China Daily, etc. He can be reached at xinping604@gmail.com)...
Introduction: Discovering and Defining the “City Upon a Hill” 1 1 Pre-Colonial and Seventeenth-Century Native American Settlements 17 2 Transplanting Cities and Urban Networks: Spain,France, and The Netherlands in Colonial America,1565–1821 42 3 City, Plantation, Metropolis: The Anglo-American ...
The topos of "a city on a hill", which presupposes the conflation of America's past (Eden) and future (New Jerusalem), is reworked as the eponymous pesthouse—the place of disease and recovery of not only the novel's protagonist but also, implicitly, of the American dream. In the ...
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The Willingness to Give: In an Age of Pessimism, We Need to Be Reminded That America Is Still Largely Free and Good-And Is Still a Shining City on a Hill, a Light to All Nations 来自 highbeam.com 喜欢 0 阅读量: 25 作者: Behreandt, Dennis ...
Allen (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2008) 275 pp. $50.95 cloth $24.95 paper Allen's reconstruction of the diverse temporalities—or ways of experiencing time—that shaped Americans' "social imagination" during the nineteenth century is a welcome contribution to the literature ...