This Violent Empire : The Birth of an American National Identity /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politieke cultuur.
Rassenongelijkheid.
Sekseverschillen.
Nationale kenmerken.
Violence.
Sexism.
Racism.
Political culture.
Paranoia.
National characteristics, American.
Marginality, Social.
Civilization.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Sexisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Paranoïa > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Racisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Violence > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Psychologie differentielle > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Blancs > États-Unis > Attitudes > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Marginality, Social > United States > History > 18th century.
Sexism > United States > History > 18th century.
Paranoia > United States > History > 18th century.
Racism > United States > History > 18th century.
Violence > United States > History > 18th century.
Political culture > United States > History > 18th century.
Difference (Psychology) > Political aspects > United States > History > 18th century.
Men, White > United States > Attitudes > History > 18th century.
National characteristics, American > History > 18th century.
Verenigde Staten.
United States.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 1783-1865.
United States > Civilization > 1783-1865.
History.
Electronic books.
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.

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