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Author Murphy, Gretchen, 1971-

Title Hemispheric imaginings [electronic resource] : the Monroe Doctrine and narratives of U.S. empire / Gretchen Murphy.

Imprint Durham : Duke University Press, c2005.

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Description xi, 195 p. : ill., map.
Series New Americanists
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
New Americanists.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-184) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Nationalism -- United States -- Historiography.
Racism -- Political aspects -- Historiography.
Imperialism -- Historiography.
International relations in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Monroe doctrine.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Historiography.
Western Hemisphere -- Relations -- United States.
United States -- Relations -- Western Hemisphere.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780822386728
0822386720
0822334844 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822334842 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822334968 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822334965 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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