This Violent Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Violent Empire write by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. This book was released on 2010. This Violent Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
This Violent Empire$dThe Birth of an American National Identity
This Violent Empire$dThe Birth of an American National Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Violent Empire$dThe Birth of an American National Identity write by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. This book was released on 2010. This Violent Empire$dThe Birth of an American National Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
This Violent Empire
This Violent Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Violent Empire write by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. This book was released on 2012-12-01. This Violent Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg explores the ways the founding generation, lacking a common history, governmental infrastructures, and shared culture, solidified their national sense of self by imagining a series of "Others" (African Americans, Native Americans, women, the propertyless) whose differences from European American male founders overshadowed the differences that divided those founders. These "Others," dangerous and polluting, had to be excluded from the European American body politic. Feared, but also desired, they refused to be marginalized, incurring increasingly enraged enactments of their political and social exclusion that shaped our long history of racism, xenophobia, and sexism. Close readings of political rhetoric during the Constitutional debates reveal the genesis of this long history.
The Myth of American Diplomacy
The Myth of American Diplomacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myth of American Diplomacy write by Walter L. Hixson. This book was released on 2008-10-01. The Myth of American Diplomacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this major reconceptualization of the history of U.S. foreign policy, Walter Hixson engages with the entire sweep of that history, from its Puritan beginnings to the twenty-first century’s war on terror. He contends that a mythical national identity, which includes the notion of American moral superiority and the duty to protect all of humanity, has had remarkable continuity through the centuries, repeatedly propelling America into war against an endless series of external enemies. As this myth has supported violence, violence in turn has supported the myth. The Myth of American Diplomacy shows the deep connections between American foreign policy and the domestic culture from which it springs. Hixson investigates the national narratives that help to explain ethnic cleansing of Indians, nineteenth-century imperial thrusts in Mexico and the Philippines, the two World Wars, the Cold War, the Iraq War, and today’s war on terror. He examines the discourses within America that have continuously inspired what he calls our “pathologically violent foreign policy.” The presumption that, as an exceptionally virtuous nation, the United States possesses a special right to exert power only encourages violence, Hixson concludes, and he suggests some fruitful ways to redirect foreign policy toward a more just and peaceful world.
The American Imperial Gothic
The American Imperial Gothic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Imperial Gothic write by Johan Hoglund. This book was released on 2016-03-16. The American Imperial Gothic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even political speeches all depicting a world consumed by vampires, zombies, meteors, aliens from outer space, disease, crazed terrorists and mad scientists. These frequently gothic descriptions of the apocalypse not only commodify fear itself; they articulate and even help produce imperialism. Building on, and often retelling, the British ’imperial gothic’ of the late nineteenth century, the American imperial gothic is obsessed with race, gender, degeneration and invasion, with the destruction of society, the collapse of modernity and the disintegration of capitalism. Drawing on a rich array of texts from a long history of the gothic, this book contends that the doom faced by the world in popular culture is related to the current global instability, renegotiation of worldwide power and the American bid for hegemony that goes back to the beginning of the Republic and which have given shape to the first decade of the millennium. From the frontier gothic of Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly to the apocalyptic torture porn of Eli Roth's Hostel, the American imperial gothic dramatises the desires and anxieties of empire. Revealing the ways in which images of destruction and social upheaval both query the violence with which the US has asserted itself locally and globally, and feed the longing for stable imperial structures, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of popular culture, cultural and media studies, literary and visual studies and sociology.
