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Hemispheric imaginings : the Monroe Doctrine and narratives of U.S. empire /

Examines the key role that the spatial construct (embodied by the Monroe Doctrine) of the western hemisphere played in enabling and effacing U.S. empire.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murphy, Gretchen, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, ©2005.
Colección:New Americanists.
Temas:
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : writing the hemisphere
  • Separate (hemi)spheres : John Quincy Adams, Lydia Maria Child, and the domestic ideology of the Monroe Doctrine
  • Selling Jim Crow from Salem to Yokohama
  • Geographic morality and the new world
  • Gringos abroad : rationalizing empire with Richard Harding Davis
  • Conclusion : the remains of the doctrine.