Hemispheric Imaginings The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U. S. Empire

Name: Hemispheric Imaginings The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U. S. Empire
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ISBN: 9780822334965

ISBN-10: 0822334968

ISBN-13: 9780822334965

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gretchen Murphy, Donald Pease

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Gretchen Murphy describes the development of the concepts that underpinned what became known as 'The Monroe Doctrine', the self-appointed task of the U.S. to protect all of the Americas from the tyranny of colonialism, particularly the roles played by journalism & literary fiction.

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 4/5/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.77" wide x 8.50" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Gretchen Murphy is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas-Austin. She is the author of Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire.



Preface


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


Notes


Bibliography


Index