The Overseas Americans
Title | The Overseas Americans PDF eBook |
Author | Harlan Cleveland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Americans |
ISBN |
Leaving America
Title | Leaving America PDF eBook |
Author | John R. Wennersten |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2007-11-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0313345074 |
Today more than ever, large numbers of Americans are leaving the United States. It is estimated that by the end of the decade, some 10 million of the brightest and most talented Americans, representing an estimated $136 billion in wages, will be living and working overseas. This emigration trend contradicts the internalized myth of America as the land of affluence, opportunity, and freedom. What is behind this trend? Wennersten argues that many people these days, from college students to retirees, are uncertain or ambivalent about what it means to be an American. For example, many are uncomfortable with that they believe America has come to represent to the rest of the world. At the same time, globalization and advances in technology have enabled the growth of a telecommuting work force whose members can live in one country and work in another, and this trend, among other factors, has encouraged a new generation of people to respond to the pull of global citizenship. Leaving America is an important reexamination of one of the most central stories in the history of American culture—the story of the immigrant coming to the Promised Land. While millions still come to America and millions more still wish to do so, there is an important counterflow of emigration from America to distant parts of the planet. This book focuses on modern American expatriates as a significant and heretofore largely ignored counterpoint phenomenon every bit as central to understanding modern America as is the image of a nation of immigrants. The greatest irony in America today may well be that while argument and discord prevail in the edifice of American democracy about diversity, economic justice, equality, and the Iraq War, many of the most thoughtful citizens have already left the building.
The American Overseas
Title | The American Overseas PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Americans |
ISBN |
Reviews placement of U.S. Foreign Service personnel, foreign opinion of U.S., and general problems faced by official U.S. representatives and private citizens abroad.
So Far and Yet So Near
Title | So Far and Yet So Near PDF eBook |
Author | American Citizens Abroad |
Publisher | |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9782839901093 |
This collection of 47 stories provides refreshing and sometimes profoundly different perspectives on America, reaffirming the strength and diversity of the nation's character.
Notes on a Foreign Country
Title | Notes on a Foreign Country PDF eBook |
Author | Suzy Hansen |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2017-08-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0374712441 |
Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive "A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual sensibility reckoning with her country's violent role in the world." —Hisham Matar, The New York Times Book Review In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing urgency for her. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines, she moved to Istanbul. Hansen arrived in Istanbul with romantic ideas about a mythical city perched between East and West, and with a naïve sense of the Islamic world beyond. Over the course of her many years of living in Turkey and traveling in Greece, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Iran, she learned a great deal about these countries and their cultures and histories and politics. But the greatest, most unsettling surprise would be what she learned about her own country—and herself, an American abroad in the era of American decline. It would take leaving her home to discover what she came to think of as the two Americas: the country and its people, and the experience of American power around the world. She came to understand that anti-Americanism is not a violent pathology. It is, Hansen writes, “a broken heart . . . A one-hundred-year-old relationship.” Blending memoir, journalism, and history, and deeply attuned to the voices of those she met on her travels, Notes on a Foreign Country is a moving reflection on America’s place in the world. It is a powerful journey of self-discovery and revelation—a profound reckoning with what it means to be American in a moment of grave national and global turmoil.
Americans Abroad
Title | Americans Abroad PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Operations |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Americans |
ISBN |
Americans from Abroad
Title | Americans from Abroad PDF eBook |
Author | John Palmer Gavit |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Immigrants |
ISBN |