The Naming of America (2023)

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Post by dadt » Sun, Oct 06, 2024, 6:04 PM UTC

The Naming of America (2023)
jonathancohenweb.com

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Post by dang » Sun, Oct 06, 2024, 6:06 PM UTC

Anybody know the year of this essay? I put 2001 above because it's the latest date I could find in the text.

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 06, 2024, 7:28 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #2

Anybody know the year of this essay? I put 2001 above because it's the latest date I could find in the text.

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Re: The Naming of America (2023)

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 06, 2024, 7:30 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #2

Anybody know the year of this essay? I put 2001 above because it's the latest date I could find in the text.

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Post by alehlopeh » Sun, Oct 06, 2024, 8:13 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #2

Anybody know the year of this essay? I put 2001 above because it's the latest date I could find in the text.

At the bottom of the article it says “An early version of this essay appeared in The American Voice (1988) and a section in Encounters (1991).”

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Post by cjs_ac » Sun, Oct 06, 2024, 8:25 PM UTC

A less rigorous but more entertaining treatment of this topic is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfXoUaeLcDU

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Post by jolmg » Sun, Oct 06, 2024, 8:33 PM UTC

alehlopeh wrote: post #5

dang wrote: post #2

Anybody know the year of this essay? I put 2001 above because it's the latest date I could find in the text.

At the bottom of the article it says “An early version of this essay appeared in The American Voice (1988) and a section in Encounters (1991).”

I think they know, but the problem is that they wouldn't be able to cite 2001 in 1991/1988.

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Post by meiraleal » Sun, Oct 06, 2024, 9:01 PM UTC

Intersting. In Brazil we argue that the US isn't America. Great to know that Brazil was first called America, not the US :)

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Post by JohnKemeny » Sun, Oct 06, 2024, 9:29 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #2

Anybody know the year of this essay? I put 2001 above because it's the latest date I could find in the text.

1988 according to Google Scholar.

https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=related:KEG9SnudRCsJ:...

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Post by madcaptenor » Sun, Oct 06, 2024, 10:46 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #2

Anybody know the year of this essay? I put 2001 above because it's the latest date I could find in the text.

Might be 2023. A look through the author’s list of publications (https://www.jonathancohenweb.com/jc-pubs.html) gives a citation under 2023:

“Why Do We Call It 'America'?" [C]. American Heritage 68.7.”

That links to an essay at https://www.americanheritage.com/why-do-we-call-it-america which says in an editor’s note that “Portions of this essay originally appeared in The American Voice.” The americanheritage.com version looks very similar to this one.