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This violent empire : the birth of an American national identity /
"This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self." "Fusing cultural and political analyses to create a new form of political history, Carro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill [North Carolina] :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
[2010]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: "What, then, is the American, this new man?"
- Section 1. The new American-as-republican citizen
- Prologue 1: The drums of war/the thrust of empire
- Fusions and confusions
- Rebellious dandies and political fictions
- American Minervas
- Section 2. Dangerous doubles
- Prologue 2: Masculinity and masquerade
- Seeing red
- Subject female : authorizing an American identity
- Section 3. The new American-as-bourgeois gentleman
- Prologue 3: The ball
- Choreographing class/performing gentility
- Polished gentlemen, troublesome women, and dancing slaves
- Black gothic.