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The anarchy of empire in the making of U.S. culture /
"The United States has always imagined that its identity as a nation is insulated from violent interventions abroad, as if a line between domestic and foreign affairs could be neatly drawn. Yet this book argues that such a distinction, so obviously impracticable in our own global era, has been...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2002.
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| Colección: | Convergences (Cambridge, Mass.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The United States has always imagined that its identity as a nation is insulated from violent interventions abroad, as if a line between domestic and foreign affairs could be neatly drawn. Yet this book argues that such a distinction, so obviously impracticable in our own global era, has been illusory at least since the war with Mexico in the mid-nineteenth century and the later wars against Spain, Cuba, and the Philippines. In this book, Amy Kaplan shows how U.S. imperialism--from 'Manifest Destiny' to the 'American Century'--has profoundly shaped key elements of American culture at home, and how the struggle for power over foreign peoples and places has disrupted the quest for domestic order."-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (260 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674264922 0674264924 9780674264939 0674264932 |