Exceptionalism
Here are entered works on the theory or belief that a specific country or other place does not conform to standard patterns or norms in terms of its origins, institutions, credo, and/or historical evolution.
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China's Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism: International Order and Global Leadership (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2021), by Benjamin Tze Ern Ho (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
- Horizons of Enchantment: Essays in the American Imaginary (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, c2011), by Lene Johannessen (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: National characteristics- The Marrow of Human Experience: Essays on Folklore (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by William A. Wilson, ed. by Jill Terry Rudy and Diane Call (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- The Myth of the Good and Bad Nations (Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1954), by René A. Wormser, contrib. by Raymond Moley (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Study of Natio-Racial Mental Differences (Genetic Psychology Monographs v1 #3-4; 1926), by Nathaniel D. Mttron Hirsch (page images at Harvard)
- Military Morale of Nations and Races (Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson Pub. Co., 1912), by Charles Young (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of International Slurs (Ethnophaulisms); With a Supplementary Essay on Aspects of Ethnic Prejudice (Cambridge, MA: Sci-Art Publishers, c1944), by A. A. Roback (page images at HathiTrust)
- The World at Home ABC: An Alphabet of Nations (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1903), by Will Gibbons (page images at Princeton)
- Far Off: or, Africa and America Described, With Anecdotes and Numerous Illustrations (part II of the "Far Off" series, 1856), by Favell Lee Mortimer (page images at Google)
- The Children of Many Nations and the ABC (Rochester, NY: Stecher Lith. Co., 1916), by Carolyn S. Hodgman, illust. by William F. Stecher (page images at Princeton)
- Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature (Gainesville, FL et al.: University Press of Florida, c1998), by Adéléke Adéè̳kó̳ (page images at HathiTrust)
- La Vérité Sur l'Albanie et les Albanais : Étude Historique et Critique (in French; Paris: Impr. de la Société Anonyme de Publications Périodiques, 1879), by Pashko Vasa
- The Fractious Nation? Unity and Division in Contemporary American Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003), ed. by Jonathan Rieder and Stephen Steinlight (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to American Studies (Bielefeld: Transcript, c2014), by Heike Paul
- The American Cause (Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1957), by Russell Kirk (page images at HathiTrust)
- The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920), by George Jean Nathan and H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg text and page images)
- American Thumb-Prints: Mettle of Our Men and Women (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott and Company, 1905), by Kate Stephens (HTML at kancoll.org)
- America's Coming-of-Age (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1915), by Van Wyck Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
- Atlantis: America and the Future (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton, ca. 1925), by J. F. C. Fuller
- Confessions of a Barbarian (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1910), by George Sylvester Viereck
- The Future in America: A Search After Realities (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1906), by H. G. Wells
- People of Destiny: Americans As I Saw Them at Home and Abroad (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1920), by Philip Gibbs (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Wine of the Puritans: A Study of Present-day America (New York: M. Kennerley, 1909), by Van Wyck Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
- Jesus and the American Mind (New York et al.: Abingdon Press, c1930), by Halford Edward Luccock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Different West, As Seen by a Transplanted Easterner (Chiago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1913), by Arthur E. Bostwick
- Letters and Leadership (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918), by Van Wyck Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
- Our America (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), by Waldo David Frank (page images at HathiTrust)
- Our Common Country: Mutual Good Will in America (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1921), by Warren G. Harding, ed. by Frederick E. Schortemeier
- Uncle Sam (reprinted from Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society v19; Worcester, MA: The Davis Press, 1908), by Albert Matthews (Gutenberg text)
- Farthest West: Life and Travel in the United States (London: John Long Ltd., 1910), by C. Reginald Enock (page images in Germany)
- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty i Rossīi︠a︡ (in Russian; ca. 1915), by N. A. Borodin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Britishness, Belonging and Citizenship: Experiencing Nationality Law (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, University of Bristol, c2018), by Devyani Prabhat (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
- A Short Guide to Great Britain (ca. 1942), by United States Army Service Forces Special Service Division
- Outspoken Essays (Second Series) (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1922), by William Ralph Inge
- To Know Our Many Selves: From the Study of Canada to Canadian Studies (2010), by Dirk Hoerder (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
- Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Thomas S. Mullaney, James Leibold, Stéphane Gros, and Eric Vanden Bussche (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)
- Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Wen-Hsin Yeh (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- Passing Through Shanghai: Ethnographic Insights Into the Mobile Lives of Expatriate Youths (Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, c2016), by Marie Sander (PDF with commentary at Heidelberg University Publishing)
- Ways That are Dark: The Truth About China (1934), by Ralph Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ways That Are Dark: The Truth About China (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1933), by Ralph Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
- When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods (Ann Arbor: University of Michgan Press, c2006), by John V. A. Fine (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Letter to a Hindu, by Leo Tolstoy, ed. by Mahatma Gandhi
- The English Spirit: Extract from a Letter to a Neutral (London: Darling and Son, 1916), by Englishman (page images here at Penn)
- The Spirit of the People: An Analysis of the English Mind (London: A. Rivers, 1907), by Ford Madox Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The True-Born Englishman (based on an 1889 annotated version of Defoe's 1703 edition), by Daniel Defoe, ed. by Henry Morley (HTML at luminarium.org)
- The True-Born Englishman: A Satire (based on an 1855 modernized spelling edition), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)
- Thinking Europe: A History of the European Idea Since 1800 (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, c2023), by Mats Andrén (PDF and Epub with commentary at berghahnbooks.com)
- A Mirror to France (New York: A. and C. Boni, c1926), by Ford Madox Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pocket Guide to France (1944), by United States Army Service Forces Information and Education Division
- Paris France (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1940), by Gertrude Stein (page images at HathiTrust)
- France-Humanité: Lettres à Une Normalienne (in French; Paris: Imp. I. Rirachovski, ca. 1918), by Ernest Lavisse (page images here at Penn)
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