Beyond Citizenship: American Identity After Globalization

by Peter J. Spiro

Book Overview

American identity has always been capacious as a concept but narrow in its application. Citizenship has mostly been about being here, either through birth or residence. The territorial premises for citizenship have worked to resolve the peculiar challenges of American identity. But globalization is detaching identity from location. What used to define American was rooted in American space. Now one can be anywhere and be an American, politically or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195152182
• ISBN13: 9780195152180
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.4"