This violent empire : the birth of an American national identity / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg.
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll.; Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
2010
E164 .S64 2010 (Mapit)
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Title This violent empire : the birth of an American national identity / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg.
Author Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll.
ISBN 9780807832967 (alk. paper)
0807832960 (alk. paper)
Imprint Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
Language English
Description xxii, 484 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number E164 .S64 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.2/5
Summary "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Corporate Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
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Introduction: "What, then, is the American, this new man?"
Section 1. The new American-as-republican citizen
Prologue 1: The drums of war/the thrust of empire
Fusions and confusions
Rebellious dandies and political fictions
American Minervas
Section 2. Dangerous doubles
Prologue 2: Masculinity and masquerade
Seeing red
Subject female : authorizing an American identity
Section 3. The new American-as-bourgeois gentleman
Prologue 3: The ball
Choreographing class/performing gentility
Polished gentlemen, troublesome women, and dancing slaves
Black gothic.

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