| Description |
vi, 672 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
New Americanists
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"Left alone with America" : the absence of empire in the study of American culture / Amy Kaplan -- New perspectives on U.S. culture and imperialism / Donald E. Pease -- Why did the Europeans cross the ocean? A seventeenth-century riddle / Myra Jehlen -- Terms of assimilation : legislating subjectivity in the emrging nation / Priscilla Wald -- Naming of Yale College : British imperialism and American higher education / Gauri Viswanathan -- Savage law : the plot against American Indians in Johnson and Graham's lessee v. M'Intosh and The pioneers / Eric Cheyfitz -- Science fiction, the world's fair, and the prosthetics of empire, 1910-1915 / Bill Brown -- Buffalo Bill's "wild west" and the mythologization of the American empire / Richard Slotkin -- White love : surveillance and nationalist resistance in the U.S. colonization of the Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael. |
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Black and blue on San Juan Hill / Amy Kaplan -- Teddy bear patriarchy : taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936 / Donna Haraway -- Americo paredes and decolonization / Jose David Saldivar -- Pious sites : chamorro culture between Spanish Catholicism and American liberal individualism / Vicente M. Diaz -- Plotting the border : John Reed, Pancho Villa, and insurgent Mexico / Christopher P. Wilson -- Anti-imperial Americanism / Walter Benn Michaels -- Appeals for (mis)recognition : theorizing the diaspora / Kenneth W. Warren -- Resisting the heat : Menchu, Morrison, and incompetent readers / Doris Sommer -- Black Americans' racial uplift ideology as "civilizing mission" : Pauline E. Hopkins on race and imperialism / Kevin Gaines. |
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From liberalism to communism : the political thought of W.E.B. Du Bois / William E. Cain -- White like me : racial cross-dressing and the construction of American whiteness / Eric Lott -- "Make my day!" : spectacle as amnesia in imperial politics [and] the sequel / Michael Rogin -- Patriot system, or managerial heroism / Susan Jeffords -- Hiroshima, the Vietnam veterans war memorial, and the Gulf War : post-national spectacles / Donald E. Pease -- Techno-muscularity and the "boy eternal" : from the quagmire to the Gulf / Lynda Boose -- "Bwana Mickey" : constructing cultural consumption at Tokyo Disneyland / Mary Yoko Brannen -- We think, therefore they are? On occidentalizing the world / Deborah Gewertz, Frederick Errington. |
| Subject |
United States -- Territorial expansion.
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Imperialism.
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United States -- Territories and possessions.
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Racism -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Race relations.
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Political culture -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Kaplan, Amy.
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Pease, Donald E.
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| ISBN |
0822314134 (pa) |
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0822314002 (cl) |
| Standard No. |
UKM b9503627 |
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NLGGC 107670437 |
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NLGGC 256477531 |
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