National manhood : capitalist citizenship and the imagined fraternity of white men /
National Manhood explores the relationship between gender, race, and nation by tracing developing ideals of citizenship in the United States from the Revolutionary War through the 1850s. Through an extensive reading of literary and historical documents, Dana D. Nelson analyzes the social and politic...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1998.
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Colección: | New Americanists.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | National Manhood explores the relationship between gender, race, and nation by tracing developing ideals of citizenship in the United States from the Revolutionary War through the 1850s. Through an extensive reading of literary and historical documents, Dana D. Nelson analyzes the social and political articulation of a civic identity centered around the white male and points to a cultural moment in which the theoretical consolidation of white manhood worked to ground, and perhaps even found, the nation. Using political, scientific, medical, personal, and literary texts ranging f. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-333) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780822382140 0822382148 1282904434 9781282904439 9786612904431 6612904437 0822321300 9780822321309 |