Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U. S. Culture

Name: Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U. S. Culture
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ISBN: 9780674017597

ISBN-10: 0674017595

ISBN-13: 9780674017597

Edition: 2002

Authors: Amy Kaplan

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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…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Amy Kaplan is Edward W. Cane Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Social Construction of American Realism.



Introduction



Manifest Domesticity



The Imperial Routes of




Romancing the Empire



Black and Blue on




Birth of an Empire



The Imperial Cartography of



Notes


Acknowledgments


Index